Tuesday,March 25, 1997Volume 43 Number 27

UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA

IN THIS ISSUE2 News in Brief:

A Challenge to Ratings;Tuition & Fee Increases;NCAA: Open Session

Major Changes inFranklin/Library Databases

3 SENATE: March 19 Actions;Resolution on Benefits

4 Report of the SENATEAd Hoc Committee onBenefits Redesign

7 Response to Ad HocCommittee (Lowery/Wachter)

8 David Morse to the PewA ‘Smart’ PennCard in View

9 SSW: Gerontology Grants;Poster Session on Aging

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COMPASS Features10 Faculty Fame and

the Handling of the Media

12 Malaria: A Bug, a Plant,a Breakthrough

13 Music to Penn’s Ears

14 Kids to Cyberspace: Hello__________________________

15 OPPORTUNITIES

18 Bulletins: Police Contract;A Nonviolent Approachto Violence;Recreation to Sign Up For

19 CrimeStats, Update20 Talk About Teaching:

Training TA’s in Math(Herman Gluck)

Pullout: April at Penn Calendar

Open Enrollment:April 28-30, May 1-7With decisions now final onbenefits redesign (left), theUniversity has also changedthe 1997 Open Enrollmentdates to the two weeks start-ing April 28, according toHuman Resources VicePresident H. Clint Davidson.Members of the faculty andstaff may expect to receivetheir individual packets dur-ing the second week in April.

A stepped-up benefits coun-seling program for facultyand staff will be announcedin a forthcoming issue.

To the University Faculty and StaffWe are pleased to acknowledge a set of recommendations that represent the first thorough review of our benefits

package in more than 15 years. The University’s benefits package is vitally important to our ability to retain andrecruit outstanding faculty and staff. We believe that the recommended changes will substantially modernize ourbenefits package and increase its value for faculty and staff. The package will offer greater choice and be moreresponsive to the preferences of the community, and will also be more cost-effective and consistent with currentbest-practices of benefits design.

The recommendations are the product of a long and deliberative period of study and consultation stretching overthe last year. They were first developed and approved by a specially constituted Benefits Advisory Committee andthen endorsed by the University’s standing Academic Planning and Budget Committee. The recommendationswere then provided to the Ad Hoc Committee of the Faculty Senate on February 5, to the Personnel BenefitsCommittee of University Council on February 7, and to the University community in Almanac on February 11,1997. Members of the Benefits Advisory Committee have met with each school’s faculty and staff from throughoutthe University—altogether more than 3,000 people—to explain the recommendations and gather feedback. TheBenefits Advisory Committee and the Academic Planning and Budget Committees were reconvened for finalsessions last week to consider this feedback before sending their recommendations to us for action.

On Medical Insurance we accept in full the recommendations. The University will:• retain Plan 100, PENNCare, and the Keystone and US Health Care HMO’s• offer the new UPHS/Keystone Point-of-Service Plan• institute the recommended employee payroll contributions for all plans• introduce a prescription drug plan for those electing the HMO plans• discontinue the BC/BS Comprehensive plan and the QualMed HMO.We recognize that these changes are complex and will require an intensive educational program during open

enrollment at the end of April. Given the range of choices being offered, we will also enhance our currentmonitoring of the quality of care in each plan and provide alternative plan designs if needed.

On Tuition Reimbursement, we accept, with one exception, the recommendations. The University will:• retain the undergraduate tuition program without change• establish special qualifying courses for employees whose admission to CGS or Wharton is deferred• eliminate the graduate and professional tuition reimbursement for spouses and dependents of faculty or staff

hired on or after July 1, 1997• retain the graduate and professional tuition reimbursement for spouses and dependents of faculty or staff

hired before July 1, 1997.This last bullet represents the single point on which we depart from the original recommendations. We do this

on the advice and counsel of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, the Benefits Advisory Committee and theAcademic Planning and Budget Committee after receiving the feedback of the University community.

On Life Insurance, we accept in full the recommendations. The University will:• provide all employees, at no charge, with life insurance coverage at one-times annual benefits base salary,

up to $300,000.• allow employees to purchase additional life insurance at group rates up to an additional four times pay• raise the current insurance maximum from $300,000 to $750,000• eliminate flex credits and replace them with an equivalent increase in benefits base salary for each employee.In instituting this change, we will communicate to employees the salary increase due to the elimination of flex-

dollars separately from the annual salary increase.On Paid Time Off, we accept in full the recommendations of the Committees. The University will:• maintain the current winter vacation• end the practice of reduced summer hours and the compensatory days off associated with them• reduce the number of categories for paid time off• adopt a single accrual schedule for new staff (A1s and A3s) hired on or after July 1, 1997.On Part-Time Benefits, we accept in full the recommendations of the Committees. The University will:• maintain the current benefits package for regular part-time employees• permit part-time employees with at least two years of continuous service to participate in the health care pre-

tax account with a maximum of $1000.

We recognize that the review of benefits must continue and that several issues still need to be addressedincluding, for example, retirement, disability, and mental health coverage.

In the future, benefits redesign will occur in a more continuous, but also more comprehensive fashion, in thecontext of the principles enunciated by the Benefits Advisory Committee and in the context of total compensation.The goal will continue to be to maintain a highly competitive total compensation package in order to recruit andretain excellent faculty and staff.

Judith Rodin Stanley Chodorow John FryPresident Provost Executive Vice President

The Decisions on Benefits Redesign

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Major Changes to Franklin and Library Databases

To All Faculty, Staff and Students:

Since its creation in 1985, Penn’s online library catalog, and later the Library’s coreinformation bases, have relied on 1970s mainframe technology to deliver growingamounts of information electronically. Today, mainframe costs and capacity limitationsare hampering our ability to support the changing information needs of teaching andresearch. To address this problem and provide a more secure foundation for Penn’sgrowing Digital Library, we plan to retire the outdated mainframe system. By earlysummer, Franklin and the other mainframe-mounted bases will reside on new computingplatforms searchable on the World Wide Web.

The Library will use the coming weeks to report in greater depth on the reasons andbenefits underlying the computing migration. We’ll also work to reduce the uneasiness itmay cause users. I’d like to begin this process by urging faculty to watch for our reports—published on our Web site and in print— and to provide input into our system designs andgoals, when, in a few weeks, we’re able to offer a preview of the new Franklin.

Inevitably, a few potholes will mark the transition to more powerful, distributedcomputing systems. But the investment in new technologies will pay dividends long afterwe correct any initial problems that may arise—problems we’re working overtime toanticipate and minimize. In the short term, the new systems will enable the Library to takefuller advantage of the Web and the current move to client/server computing on campus.They will provide greater capacity to store and deliver electronic information at lowercosts than presently possible. Over the long term, the new systems will allow us to respondquickly to software and hardware innovations, networking improvements and the emer-gence of new digital media. And they will aid us in converting redundant paper-basedactivities to more effective and cost-beneficial electronic processes, thus changing theLibrary work place for the benefit of users. Technology will free librarians to increaseinstructional outreach and help faculty and students negotiate the expanding universe ofprint and digital information. It will also help us deliver many frequently-requestedpaperless services to the desktop, as our new systems mature.

The new Franklin will contrast sharply with the mainframe system. Some of the majordifferences include:

• the graphical Web interface, featuring icons, pull-down menus and point-and-clickcommands,

• the ability to recall books using Web pages,• the ability to view your borrower record and monitor books you currently have on

loan or recalled,• a new keyword search capability that ranks by relevancy, in addition to traditional

author, title, subject, call number and full Boolean keyword searching,• the ability to limit searches by date, library location and type of material,• hypertext links on subjects and authors, and• hypertext links to online resources, including more than 1,200 electronic journals.

The software supporting Franklin is marketed under the name Voyager and engineeredby Endeavor Information Systems. Endeavor is unique in its willingness to partner witha group of academic libraries in developing the Voyager catalog. As a contributor to thispartnership, our goal is to achieve the most effective online catalog possible—one thatcombines the best elements of known systems with features customized for the specificinformation needs of the Penn community. If you’d like to explore a similar implemen-tation of Voyager today, visit the University of Rochester Library on the Web athttp://groucho.lib.rochester.edu/.

For the citation bases that also reside on the mainframe, the Library is presently testinga Web-searchable system designed by OVID Technologies. OVID will feature a sophis-ticated Java interface which operates within the Web environment to accelerate andenhance the functionality of database searching. Over time, OVID also will provide thecapacities needed to increase the number of networked bases we offer. The files migratingto OVID include ABI/Inform, Current Contents, PsychInfo, and the five Wilson bases.The transition to OVID will be phased in over the summer months, with parallel accessto the mainframe versions of ABI/Inform and the other citation files available throughSeptember 1997. Please note that the Library will continue to provide character-based,telnet access to both Franklin and the OVID files for users who cannot or prefer not tosearch over the Web.

The Franklin migration to Voyager will take place in June. Given the size of our localsystems, some level of service disruption is inevitable as we convert large data sets, andtransfer acquisitions funds, account ledgers, in-process files and circulation recordsbetween platforms. To minimize inconveniences for our users during this complexmigration, we’ll be sensitive to the academic calendar and the need for continuous,reliable service. We’ll also make communication a high priority, and disseminate regularupdates of our progress and advance notice of potential service interruptions. Training isanother important focus. Our librarians are developing outreach programs now to teachstudents and faculty to make optimal use of our changing resources.

I’ll be delighted to answer your questions regarding this announcement and our futureplans; please contact me at 898-7091 or by e-mail via mosher@pobox.upenn.edu. Also,I urge you to discuss these changes with staff in any of our Libraries. We’ll do our utmostto provide informative answers.

— Paul H. Mosher, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries

Changing the PennCardBy fall the University will introduce a new multi-

function “smart” PennCard, in partnership with PNCBankCorp., MBNA America Bank N.A., and the PennStudent Federal Credit Union.

To prepare for the changeover, an oversight com-mittee is being formed (see page 8). Any school orcenter that has a stake in the use of PennCard’s mag-netic stripe is particularly asked to contact planners(details on page 8).

Leaving in April: David MorseDavid Morse, the associate vice president for policy

planning who shaped Penn’s first major federal rela-tions program and led it over the past 14 years, willleave the University late in April to join the PewCharitable Trusts. (See story, p. 8.)

NCAA Team Open Interviews: April 2Members of the campus community will have an

opportunity to interact with members of the peer re-view team as part of the NCAA Athletics Certification,according to Stephen T. Golding, vice president forfinance and chair of the NCAA Certification Commit-tee at Penn.

The team will be on campus April 1-4. The openinterview has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 2,from 4:30-5 p.m. in Suite 200 of Houston Hall. It isopen to all members of the campus community. Copiesof the final self-study report, with its appendices, areavailable for inspection at Van Pelt-Dietrich LibraryCenter. The study without the appendices (AlmanacDecember 10, 1996), is on the web athttp://www.upenn.edu/pennnews.

Tuition/Fee IncreasesUndergraduate tuition and fee increases of 5.3%—

the lowest at Penn in 29 years—were voted at theMarch 14 meeting of the Trustees Executive Commit-tee, bringing the combination of tuition and fees fromFY1997’s $21,130 to $22,250 for FY1998.

Along with 2% increases in residential charges(from $4,342 to $4,428) and in the 15-meal dining plan(from 2,624 to $2,676), the overall cost increase forroom and board is 4.5% (from $28,096 to $29,354).

President Judith Rodin said Penn will maintain theneed-blind admissions policy.

Graduate tuition and feels will also increase 5.3%,from $21,992 to $23,158.

A Challenge to the Ratings?A new book on ratings, which challenges the use of

peer voting systems such as those mixed with hard datain the National Research Council studies, shows Pennwould move from 14th place to 7th among privateresearch universities under the authors’ largely quan-titative criteria (such as federal grants for research,number of articles in scholarly journals and in sets ofjournals treated as most-prestigious, and awards in thearts and humanities).

The Rise of American Research Universities: Elitesand Challengers in the Postwar Era (Johns HopkinsUniversity Press) by Hugh Davis Graham of Vanderbiltand Nancy Diamond of the University of Maryland/Baltimore County, is reviewed in The New York TimesMarch 19 by Karen W. Arenson.

The study covering the 25-year period 1965-1990gives Stanford first place and Princeton second. Atthird in a three-way tie are Chicago, Harvard and Yale.Columbia is sixth, Duke and Penn tie for seventh, andBrandeis and Johns Hopkins tie for ninth. The studyalso ranks public institutions, with U.C. Berkeley asnumber one, followed by U.C. Santa Barbara, SUNYStony Brook, Michigan, Wisconsin at Madison, Illi-nois-Urbana, Indiana, U.C. San Diego, and Colorado.

News in Brief

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SENATE From the Senate Office

The following statement is published in accordancewith the Senate Rules. Among other purposes, thepublication of SEC actions is intended to stimulatediscussion among the constituencies and their represen-tatives. Please communicate your comments to SenateChair Peter Kuriloff or Executive Assistant CarolynBurdon, Box 12 College Hall/6303, 898-6943 orburdon@pobox.upenn.edu.

Actions Taken by theSenate Executive Committee

Wednesday, March 19, 1997

1. Benefits Redesign. Discussion continued from thelast meeting with a report by the Faculty Senate ad hocCommittee to Review the Benefits Redesign Report (seepp. 4-6). SEC members reiterated their primary concernsabout grandfathering graduate tuition and changes in healthcare plans and the jump in cost for some. Present to respondto questions and clarifications were the Deputy Provost,Associate Provost, and representatives of the consultantTowers Perrin. SEC discussed and modified a resolution(at right) drafted by the Chair, Past Chair and Chair-elect.The amended resolution was unanimously adopted andforwarded to the administration.

2. Nominees for Next Year’s Committees. SECadded to the lists of nominees recommended by the SenateCommittee on Committees. A mail ballot will be circulatedto members of SEC.

3. Academic Planning and Budget Committeeand Capital Council . It was agreed to defer the report topublication in Almanac.

Since the last report the Academic Planning and BudgetCommittee has held seven meetings devoted to the follow-ing topics: briefing on West Philadelphia; residences andfood services; new professional degrees (e.g., Bioethicsand Biomedical Technology); undergraduate retention;responsibility center budgeting; Annenberg Center; andPh.D. programs.

Capital Council approved the following projects: LewisHall at the Law School; Delta Tau Delta Fraternity renova-tion; Biomedical Research Building Three; phase II & IVrenovation of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library; basement, first &second floors of Franklin Building; and Gateway BuildingA/E fees.

4. Deferred Items. The balance of the agenda wasdeferred. Those items were: Proposed Procedural Prin-ciples for School Academic Freedom and ResponsibilityCommittees (Almanac February 25, 1997); Nominationsfor one 1-year vacancy on the Senate Committee on Con-duct; and proposed faculty exit questionnaire.

Senate Executive CommitteeResolution on Benefits Redesign

Adopted Unanimously March 19, 1997There now has been extensive opportunity to discuss the benefits redesign report

among all constituencies of the University. Over the last two weeks the Chair, Past Chairand Chair-elect of the Faculty Senate have had frank and useful discussions with thepresident and provost around benefits redesign and have reached agreement that theadministration and the faculty will create separate committees to work in close collabo-ration on the next phase of the process. The Senate Executive Committee welcomes thisdevelopment and will appoint the faculty committee by the end of this term.

SEC received the report of the Faculty Senate ad hoc Committee to Review theBenefits Redesign Report on March 17 [see text, pp. 4-7 of this issue]. After extensivediscussions with faculty from across the University, feedback from the various schoolsand full and complete discussions with the Faculty Senate ad hoc Committee, thepresident, provost, deputy provost and associate provost, the Senate Executive Commit-tee unanimously adopted the following resolution.

ResolutionAfter careful review of the proposed benefits redesign and following the advice of

the Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Benefits Redesign Report, theSenate Executive Committee calls on the administration to take the following steps toimprove the proposed plan.

1. Agree to reexamine and redesign the benefits package for the following years,in a comprehensive fashion, according to the following principles:

a. Reconsider the entire benefits package comprehensively when restructuringretirement and disability benefits.

b. Affirm Penn’s commitment to maintaining compensation at highly competi-tive levels with peer universities in order to attract and retain highly distinguishedscholars and staff members.

c. Ensure that the benefits program and salary levels separately remain highlycompetitive with those offered by peer institutions, even though the mix in amountsspent on benefits and salary within total compensation will vary over time.

d. Make any future changes in benefits and salary levels to ensure that the totallevel of compensation does not decline and remains highly competitive.

e. Examine the feasibility of developing adequate mental health, hospice, andinstitutional and community long-term care coverage using conventional andalternative delivery systems.

f. Develop a set of principles that can be used to identify that sub-set of regular,part-time employees for whom an appropriate benefits plan should be provided.

2. a. Remove lifetime caps on health care insurance benefit payments in all plans.b. If the Keystone POS, PennCare or US Healthcare substitutes for the BC/BS

Comprehensive Plan do not perform satisfactorily, consider reintroducing BC/BSComprehensive as a mid-range alternative between BS/BS 100, PennCare and theHMO options.

c. Adopt state-of-the-art techniques for monitoring quality of care and membersatisfaction in the health care plans.

d. Provide major immediate education to all Penn employees about the natureof the various health care choices and greater access to benefits counsellors. Alsoprovide improved education about plans in future years.

3. Affirm Penn’s current commitment to the undergraduate tuition benefit.

4. Grandfather the graduate tuition benefit for all current faculty and staff and forfaculty and staff hired to begin work by January 15, 1998.

5. In reporting the amount of annual salary increases commencing July 1, 1997, toindividual employees, identify specifically the component in dollars or percent that isdue to the one-time increase caused by the conversion of flex dollars to salary and thecomponent that reflects the annual increase.

6. Recognize that any “savings,” from the current benefits redesign should bedistributed equitably. Deans should not have discretion in distributing such savings.

7. Reconsider developing an appropriate flexible benefits plan.

SEC also endorses the administration’s commitment that the Benefits AdvisoryCommittee work in coordination with a high-level Faculty Senate committee to beappointed by the end of the Spring term 1997. These two committees should workseparately but collaborate fully with each other. Their first order of business should beto develop a long-term benefits philosphy to guide Penn’s future work in benefitsredesign.

Peter Kuriloff, Faculty Senate Chair

SENATE From the ChairBenefits Redesign:Background Documents in the DebateBefore arriving at the final recommendations whichinformed the decision announced on page 1, repre-sentatives of the Benefits Advisory Committee metwith the Senate Executive Committee on March 19,where the report of SEC’s Ad Hoc Committee onBenefits Redesign was the first item on the agenda(below). During that meeting SEC passed the resolu-tion at right. The Ad Hoc Committee Report itself ison pages 4-6, and is followed by a response from Dr.Barbara Lowery, Associate Provost, and Dr. MichaelWachter, Deputy Provost.

The March 19 SEC consultation was the last in a longseries of deliberations involving faculty and staff,some of them summed up in Almanac issues ofFebruary 18 and 25, and March 4, 11 and 18.—Ed.

SENATE Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Benefits Redesign

Benefits Redesign at the University of PennsylvaniaA Review and Analysis of the Recommendations Published on

February 11, 1997, by the Benefits Advisory CommitteeSubmitted to SEC March 13, 1997

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Review the Benefits Redesign Report waspointed by the Chair of Faculty Senate, PetKuriloff. The Committee was charged with tlimited task of reviewing and analyzing recomendations made by the Benefits Advisory Cmittee (Almanac, February 11, 1997) for changein four components of the current benefits pgram that impact directly on the welfare members of Penn’s Faculty Senate. In viewthis specific charge, the ad hoc Committeenot consider other components of the enbenefits program or the relationship betweenbenefits and salary components of total comsation. Accordingly, the review and analyreported here only addresses changes remended by the Benefits Advisory Committee(a) health care insurance, (b) graduate turemission for spouses and dependent childrePenn employees (c) life insurance, and (d) efits for regular part-time employees.

Since receiving an advance copy of recmendations for benefits redesign on Februa1997, the ad hoc Committee met several tiduring the past month to review and analthese recommendations. During the coursthis review, the Committee requested, andceived, additional information from the Offiof the Provost and the Division of Human Rsources in its efforts to understand informaand principles used by the Benefits AdvisCommittee in forming its recommendatioNonetheless, the work of the ad hoc Commwas constrained by the short period of time incomplete detailed information available perform its task. The content of this reptherefore, is necessarily limited by these cotions under which the Committee was obligato function.

The ad hoc Committee performed its revand analysis of recommended changes inlected benefits from the perspective of the ulty as a whole. Of course, the Committee unstood that the changes as proposed will hdifferential effects on individual faculty members, but it judged that the general welfare omembers of Faculty Senate should be its oriding concern.

Health Care InsuranceThe primary rationale for the University

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to other employers with whom Penn competevarious labor markets, Penn’s compensapackage is overly rich in benefits.

The health benefits redesign therefore volves two changes: 1) a modest alteration inset of health plans among which employeeschoose and 2) a substantial increase in the tion of the cost of these plans to be paidemployees. This increase in employee contrtion is not distributed evenly across plans.

Compared to the current set of health pofferings, two plans which were chosen bmodest number of employees were deletedhigher deductible “comprehensive” indemnplan and some of the HMO options, most imptantly the HMO offered by QualMed. A neoption, an HMO with a Point of Service optisupplied by Keystone Health Plan East, has bintroduced.

The fraction of the cost (premiums for oside plans and benefits paid for self-insuplans) expected to be paid by employeesbeen increased from the 11% level which pvailed in FY 1997 to the level of 17%, appromately equal to the level in FY 1994. Some poptions experienced very modest increasepremiums. The lower deductible indemnity “P100” will have increases in employee contritions of only a few dollars a month. The Kestone and US Healthcare HMOs, which had zemployee premiums in 1997, will require annpremiums of $120 for individuals and $312 families. The redesign plan document clathat these increases are virtually identical toexpected cost for adding a prescription dbenefit that was formerly lacking only from thoption.

The largest increases in employee paid miums will come from people who chose aplan but Plan 100 in 1997 and who in 1998 cheither the PENNCare plan or the new KeystPoint of Service (POS) plan. All plans excPlan 100 had virtually zero premiums in 19while the annual employee premiums for 19are proposed to be set at $240 for individcoverage and $624 for family coverage for Keystone POS option, and at exactly twice thlevels for the PENNCare option.

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ployee premiums match higher expected ben-efits for each of the plans. The annual increase intotal health care benefits costs is expected to bvery modest (almost 5%), while the employeepremium share is forecasted to increase by abou50%, so one must conclude that the increase inemployee premiums must be considerably greatethan the increase in expected benefits or costsBeyond this conclusion, the following discus-sion of the plan-level changes must be regardedas somewhat speculative. Nevertheless, it doeappear, based both on data in the description othe plan changes and statements by the Administration, that the proposed new premiums forPlan 100 and the USHC/Keystone HMO reflectalmost none of the increased premiums for cur-rent benefits. That is, after adjusting for the costof the prescription drug benefits added to theHMO plan, employees who formerly chose theseplans and stay in them are bearing little or noneof the increased employee premiums. Insteadthose who pay additional premiums of from$240 (individual, POS) to $1,248 (family,PENNCare) bear the great bulk of the burden ofthe additional employee premiums.

There appear to be two major problematicfeatures of this benefits redesign. Employees arebeing asked to bear more of the cost of theirbenefits without receiving any increase in moneywages as an offset, and the burden of that cost idistributed very unevenly across employees de-pending on their benefits choices. It appears thathose employees who formerly chose the com-prehensive or PENNCare options bear all of thecost of the increased employee contributions inexcess of any increased anticipated total costs tthe University. A third issue is whether theproposed blending of plan costs is the appropri-ate pricing strategy or whether each plan optionshould be self-supporting.

Increases in employee premium contribu-tions have the same effect on gross pay as reductions in money wages. Because employee premium contributions are tax shielded, the two arenot exactly equivalent, but it is clear that whenemployee payments for health benefits are in-creased in excess of any increased cost of thosbenefits, the value of total compensation hasbeen reduced. Other things equal, employeesmay be expected to oppose reductions in thevalue of their total compensation. Had the in-creased employee contributions been distrib-

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uted approximately evenly across employeewould be possible to offset these higher conbutions by an increase in the money wagecreases in 1998 in excess of the raises that wotherwise have been paid. While it is still psible to provide such offsets, they will overcopensate those who remain in Plan 100 and thHealthcare/Keystone HMO, and under compsate those who were in the ComprehensivPENNCare plans and who do not switch toHMO or Plan 100.

EvaluationThe primary problem in Penn’s current hea

benefits offering is that, except for Plan 100other offerings carry approximately zero eployee premiums. This is alleged to resuldistorted choices across plans (since emplohave no incentive to take into account the difence in costs to the University for differeplans) and a compensation package whichduces employees with working spouses to efamily coverage at Penn, rather than at spouse’s employer. This situation arose becPenn’s employer contribution policy was baon a fraction of the cost for Plan 100; as preums for that plan have risen relative to otpremiums in recent years, the employer’s cobution has exceeded the total premium forother insurance options, resulting in zero osome case negative premiums for them. redesign is intended to correct this design fHowever, one may argue that these negacontributions can serve as an incentive encaging employees into the most cost-effecplans.

While acknowledging that Penn has expenced the same problem in its benefits desighave other employers (including the Fedgovernment and the large California Public Eployees system, two common benchmarks)proposed solution is open to question. The sons for skepticism are indicated in the desction above: the increased employee contrtions to correct the acknowledged design fare not distributed evenly across employeesproportion to a health plan’s cost to the Univsity, and are not proposed to be offset by higmoney wage increases.

With regard to the issue of money wages,argument made in the description of the pposed plan for raising the average emplocontribution and not promising a money waoffset is only that the proposed employee cobution level of 17% is “still well below thaverage in the private sector,” with no mentof comparative wage levels. If the problem wPenn’s current package is that it is too benerich and cash-poor, the solution would seeminvolve both a reduction in University benefcontributions and an increase (compared to wotherwise would have occurred) in money waIt seems likely that the high increases in Univsity contributions which occurred in FY 1991997 were offset by lower increases in mowages (compared to what would have occuif benefits costs had increased less rapidlythat attempting to correct matters by actu

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raising the employee payment for benefits,capturing some of the excess contributionprevious years, without returning some of wage offset, will not in fact redress the balanThe alternative hypothesis is that during period of excessive benefits contribution mowages were for some reason not reduced offsetting fashion; this would lead to the concsion that Penn employees are currently ocompensated in total relative to the labor mket. No evidence was provided that would sport this contention; indeed, the assertion inintroduction that “the cost of employee beneis negatively affecting Penn’s ability to (achieve) competitive salary for faculty and stimplies that it is not so.

The more controversial issue concernsuneven pattern of employee premium increaWhile nowhere stated in the explanatory doments, the University appears to have chosekeep the employee premium contributionsthe HMOs low because these plans are disportionately (though not exclusively) chosenlow wage employees. It is less obvious whhas chosen to keep the Plan 100 premiumssince those plans are disproportionately choby higher salaried faculty. It has been suggethat, if the University wishes to cushion the blof higher employee premium contributionslower wage employees, a preferable way to dwould be to raise the money wages of themployees—since this would avoid “subsiding” the employees who chose the HMO optbut are not low-wage. Others have questiothe desirability or the feasibility of using copensation policy to redistribute income amoemployees when compensation policy is asupposed to be competitive at all wage leve

Owing both to the complexity of the probleand the little time available to secure neeinformation for this review, no specific alterntive for redesign of health benefits can be sgested at this time. The objective of correcthe design flaw associated with the former ctribution policy is a worthy one, but those desflaws need to be clarified and verified togreater extent to assure that the new designnot itself contain implicit flaws. In addition the concerns already mentioned, there wasthat the proposed modest increases in emplcontributions to Plan 100 premiums cannosustained, if the costs of that plan continue toat both its historical and projected rates. Pamore attention to wage offsets overall and toeconomics for health plans ought to guide“redesign of the redesign” which we favor. Aditionally, there should be reconsideration ofcontents of the various plans as well as tpricing, especially in light of concerns that habeen raised about the adequacy of Penn’s pin respect to mental health benefits, nurshome care, home health care and the size olifetime cap on benefits. Long-term care aquality of care issues also should be considin a potential redesign. In the meantime, probably for FY 1998, the proposed moratoriby SEC on changes should probably appl

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Graduate Tuitionfor Spouses and Children

The rationale for the elimination of the gradate tuition benefit for spouses and depenchildren is that this is a costly benefit ($million a year) that is used by a very smpercentage of Penn employees at any oneand exceeds what is offered by peer institutiOn the basis of the additional information twe received, we conclude, however, that actual net cost of this benefit to the Universitconsiderably less than what is claimed andnote that, while the number of employees uit at any one time is small, the percentage use it at some point over the course of their ecareer at Penn may be considerable. Further-more, eliminating this benefit has a high price inlost trust of those employees who came to Pethe expectation that it would be available to thIn addition, there is an advantage for recruitmand retention of the faculty in a relatively inexpsive benefit that outstrips what peer institutioffer.

We suggest that the existing benefit grandfathered for all employees arriving at Pthrough January 1998, and not availableemployees hired after that date. A further pobility is that the benefit could be made availato employees arriving after January 1998 somewhat reduced and streamlined form, naman across-the-board benefit of 50% of tuitionspouses and dependent children alike (inste50% for spouses, and either 75% or 100%children depending on the school), althoughresulting savings would be small.

Life InsuranceUnder the current life insurance progra

faculty and staff receive flex credits equivalto purchase a multiple of 1 to 4 times sadepending upon their age. The age bracketas follows:

Under 36 4.0 X benefits base36 to 45 3.5 X benefits base46 to 50 3.0 X benefits base51 to 64 2.5 X benefits base65 to 70 2.0 X benefits baseOver 70 1.0 X benefits baseOnce Flex Credit allotments are receiv

staff may choose to purchase $50,000 in coage, or any multiple of salary from 1 X to 5salary provided this multiple does not exceedcap of $300,000. There is a core amounrequired insurance coverage which is the leof $50,000 or 1 X benefits base.

The proposed changes to the Universigroup life insurance program are designemove to a system whereby the University fua life insurance benefit of one times salaryemployees with the balance of Flex Dollproviding a one-time increase in base sal

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The overall implications of this change individual faculty members are difficult to asess because there is so much individual vtion in the benefit. The current program provia level of coverage determined as a varmultiple of salary based on a participant’s aAge also determines the cost per thousandlars of life insurance. The multiplication of tage cost of the coverage determines the Dollars that can be used to purchase life inance or spend on other PennFlex benefits.proposed recommendation suggests that thisefit could be purchased with after-tax dollasaving participants a portion of the tax assated with imputed income on group life insance coverage over $50,000. This saving woccur if the premium rates at which an individpurchases insurance in the University groupless than the rates on which imputed taxincome is based. It is not clear that everywould be better off with this change, althoumany participants may well be advantagedthe tax effect. A lower paid employee not subto taxes may be marginally worse off. Also,change calls for a one-time salary adjustmgiving participants the dollars used to fund tlife insurance. Under the present system,Flex Dollars increase with age. A participclose to retirement and about to cross an inance price threshold may be better off undeold system. However, there are countervabeneficial effects. A participant may havecontribution to their retirement plan increaby the proposed one-time change in salary

As the preceding paragraph indicates,tailed actuarial computations would be nesary to judge whether the community is betteworse off. Introducing the time element in teof how long one continues working and pension impact makes the problem particulcumbersome. In all likelihood, there are sobeneficially impacted and some who are mginally worse off.

There are some other policy implicationsthe change in the life insurance programwould eliminate the Flex Credit pool associawith the PennFlex program. The Flex Credit designed to manage benefits for a diveworkforce since multiple benefit programs be offered and contributions can be madecredit pool. Employees then pick and chowhich benefits they want and where they spend their Flex Dollars. A decision on whe

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It is recommended that the amount of ansalary increase awarded because of the adtional Flex Dollars added to base salary be rported to individual employees as a specifpercentage of base salary along with the specpercentage increase in base salary (if anawarded as an annual increment.

Benefits for Regular Part-TimeEmployees

In the judgment of the ad hoc Committee, thaddition of the option of a Health Care Pre-TaAccount for regular part-time employees improves significantly the very limited benefitsoffered to this group. Under current circumstances, restricting this account to a maximum$1000 appears to be reasonable.

However, the benefits provided for regulapart-time employees should be given furtheconsideration. Within this group of part-timeemployees are some who no doubt need ahave a justifiable claim to more generous treament, while there are others who have little neor justification for more generous treatment. Foexample, the Committee has heard of couplwho share a full-time position as their primarsource of employment and who are long-teremployees in vital and valued positions. Bcontrast, the Committee has also heard of othwho hold minor part-time appointments in maginal positions and who have full-time employment (and associated benefits) elsewhere. Csideration should be given to developing principles that can be used to identify subsets regular part-time employees for whom morgenerous benefits should be provided.

ConclusionIn conclusion, the members of the ad ho

Committee do not believe that Penn has a “beefits philosophy,” or, even more important, “total compensation philosophy.” By this wemean a set of long-term principles that can used in the design of periodic changes to tbenefits program and salary levels. By contrathe current set of recommendations in selectbenefits, as published in Almanac, certainly isnot framed by a stated philosophy, and no suphilosophy has been made public. One apparconsequence of the lack of a total compensatiphilosophy is the use of the piecemeal stratefor making changes in the components of

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The ad hoc Committee recommends that Penn “total compensation philosophy” be developed and published, and that changes to benefand salary be made in accordance with this phlosophy. In the view of the Committee, such aphilosophy should embrace the following ele-ments as a minimum:• Penn should be committed to maintainingfaculty compensation at a highly competitivelevel in comparison with peer universities as parof its efforts to attract and retain highly distin-guished scholars for each of its faculties,• While changes in the structure of facultybenefits and in salary levels are constructive aninevitable, any changes should be made witregard to their impact on all components ofcompensation, and should ensure that the level total compensation does not decline and remainat a highly competitive level.• Although the mix between amounts spent onbenefits and salary within total compensation arexpected to vary over time, the benefits programand salary levels separately should be very competitive with those offered by peer institutions.• Since there are many individual differencesin the needs of faculty members for particularcomponents of a broad-based benefits programconsiderable flexibility should be provided withinthe package of benefits for faculty members totailor a set to benefits that is most responsive tpersonal needs. Thus, if the current FlexibleBenefits Plan (PennFlex) is discontinued as recommended by the Benefits Advisory Commit-tee, steps should to be taken immediately tdesign and implement an improved and broadeflexible benefits plan.

Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committeeto Review the

Benefits Redesign Report

Erling E. Boe, Professor of EducationSheila H. Murnaghan, Associate Professor of

Classical StudiesMark V. Pauly, Bendheim Professor of Health

Care Systems, Public Management,Insurance, and Economics

Jerry S. Rosenbloom, Frederick H. Ecker Pro-fessor of Insurance and Risk Management

Response of the Associate Provost and Deputy Provost start on page 7 .

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Response to the Ad Hoc CommitteeReport on Benefits Redesign

by Barbara J. Lowery, Associate Provost, and Michael L. Wachter, Deputy Provost

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The starting point for our response to the AHoc Committee’s report is with their startinpoint. The Committee states that they were givthe “limited task of reviewing and analyzinrecommendations made by the Benefits Adsory Committee for changes...that impact drectly on the welfare of members of PennFaculty Senate.” The University Benefits Advsory Committee had the broader focus of University employees, and that Committee icluded representatives of the A-1 and A-3 comunities. The Academic Planning and BudgCommittee, which is a faculty dominated committee, also had a broader focus than the Ad HCommittee, since AP&B is the designated Unversity committee to deal with a full range oacademic planning and budgetary issues facthe University.

We organize our response following the ouline of the Ad Hoc Committee’s report:

Health Care InsuranceThe Ad Hoc Committee questions the pri

ing rationale adopted by the Benefits RedesCommittee. They argue that the recommendpayroll contributions for FY 1998 fall unevenlywith only a slight increase for those in Plan 10virtually no change for the HMO populationonce the effect of the new prescription planincluded, and a substantial increase for thosePENNCare.

The Ad Hoc Committee seems to be confuing price changes with price levels in analyzinchanges in the contribution for Plan 100. It is tcase that Plan 100 participants will experienonly a small increase in cost-sharing under therecommendations. However, they will still hava greater cost-sharing percentage than in otplans. It is also the case, as the committee sgests, that Plan 100 participants are higher pbecause there more faculty in that plan thanany of the others. But, the participants in thplan since 1989 have borne the largest relatshare of their health insurance costs while inviduals in the other plans experienced a decrein cost-sharing so dramatic that there was sharing for the past two fiscal years.

The idea of subsidizing the HMO’s morheavily than other plans was discussed at lenby both committees. The explanation for th

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cost-sharing strategy for the HMO’s was baseon the principle that the University should offera low cost plan option that would be affordableto all employees. There was considerable concern that the individuals in those plans, most owhom are lowered salaried employees, woulexperience hardship if the cost-sharing was togreat. That concern resulted in the recommendesingle and family rates in those plans. Althougthis principle seems not to be shared by the AHoc Committee of the Faculty Senate, it wastrongly supported by most faculty members ithe Benefits Redesign and Academic Planninand Budget Committees.

The Ad Hoc Committee recommends in-creasing the contributions for Plan 100 and fothe HMO’s in order to reduce the cost sharinproposed for the PENNCare plan. The fact thathe Penn Care preferred provider organizatiohas the highest payroll contribution increase ithat the plan, as we have discussed elsewhewas introduced at a time when no plans, othethan Plan 100 had a positive payroll contribution. Since that plan option was new, the University did not know its actual cost experienceWith data now available, it is the judgment of theconsultants, Towers Perrin, that PENNCare operates as a high-cost plan, almost as high as P100. The reason is that PENNCare has a veliberal out-of-network benefit, which makesPENNCare work like Plan 100.

The Ad Hoc Committee acknowledges thathe pricing formula in use over the past few yearwas flawed, but are concerned that the cost fixing the flaw is not evenly spread, with thePlan 100 population unfairly favored. But thebenefit of the flaw was not enjoyed by partici-pants in Plan 100. Hence the burden of fixing thflaw is distributed to those who primarily ben-efited from it.

A second issue raised by the Ad Hoc Committee concerns the rate normalization of thplans. The Benefits Advisory committee re-jected the process of pricing each plan as separate entity, a process that led to the malfuntioning formula and the drastic reductions incost sharing that accompanied it. Such pricinviolates the basic principle of group insurancwhich is to spread insurance risk across an entipopulation.

Under the “normalized” approach, total pre-mium rates are “normalized” to spread the healtinsurance risk across the entire Penn populatioAnother way of stating this is that each plan irated as if the entire Penn population (good riskand bad) were in that plan, thereby removinfrom the rates of each plan the underlying healtcare utilization of that plan’s specific enrolleesThis eliminates adverse selection effects. Tota

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his way the total cost for each plan more closelyeflects the true value of that plan irrespective ofhe health status of its enrollees. It was thepinion of the Towers Perrin Consulting firm

hat the “normalized” approach is more accuraterom a technical perspective than the pricingtrategies that have been employed in the pas

Finally, the Ad Hoc Committee was con-erned about faculty being asked to bear more ohe cost of their benefits without receiving anyncrease in money wages as an offset in FY998. They justify this concern by arguing that

he high increases in University contributions toealth care in past years were likely offset by

ower increases in money wages, so that a wagffset for benefits increases in the next fiscalear will not redress the balance in lost compenation. It is argued, alternatively, that wagesight not have been reduced in an offsetting

ashion leading to a conclusion that Penn facultyre currently overcompensated in total relative

o the labor market.The first argument is contradicted by the

aculty Senate’s own work. In January, 1996,he Committee on the Economic Status of theaculty reported that on the AAUP weighted

ndex (which adjusts the salary structures ofach of the other universities to Penn’s mix ofssistant, Associate and Full Professors) in 19945 Penn ranked fourth moving up from sixth tenears ago. The committee also reported tha...Penn’s relative dollar gain on the index overhe ten year period was larger than nine of thether eleven institutions.” In their discussion of

otal compensation, they report that “Penn’satio of total compensation to salary of 127.6%as the highest among the comparable schoolsetween 3.4 and 6.8% higher than others of the

op five [Harvard 124.2, MIT 124.1, Chicago23.9, Stanford 120.8].” That report goes on toiscuss concerns about differences in salariecross schools. But, in the aggregate, the Senaeport suggests that, at least with respect to thaculty, salary increases were not being reduceo offset the health care insurance pricing prob-em that emerged after 1989.

Graduate Tuitionfor Spouses and Children

The Ad Hoc Committee advocates grand-fathering, for current employees, the graduatetuition benefit for spouses and children. Theoriginal recommendation to eliminate this ben-efit was based on the fact that the benefit ishighly unusual among Ivy Plus institutions, is

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Federal Relations’ David Morse to the Pew Charitable TrustsDavid Morse, who joined Penn 14 years ago as its first full-time director of federal relations, will

leave the University on April 21 to become become director of public affairs at the Pew CharitableTrusts, one of the nation’s largest private foundations.

A search for a successor has begun, and in the interim, the federal relations function will continueto be led by Vice President Carol Scheman, with the assistance of Carl Maugeri, Associate Director,and Micheline Murphy, Policy Analyst, both in the Office of Federal Relations.

As federal relations director and then as associate vice president for policy planning, Mr. Morsehas both represented Penn in Washington and led in many of the joint higher education efforts thatdeal with national policy, such as those of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and theAssociation of American Universities (AAU). Since 1995, he has been one of the key strategistsbehind the Science Coalition, a Washington-based group of more than 400 universities, scientificand engineering societies, voluntary groups, corporations, Noble Laureates, former Cabinet officersand other prominent individuals organized to advocate on behalf of robust federal support foruniversity-based research as a matter of national interest. The Coalition, initiated at the behest ofPresident Rodin, Trustee Chairman P. Roy Vagelos, and leaders of several other universities, hasbeen cited by media as one of the most significant forces behind renewed interest and support forbasic science and technology funding.

“David’s expertise and leadership on key issues have positioned Penn to be a major player insome of the most significant higher education policy issues of our time,” said President Judith Rodin.“His deep appreciation for the concerns and needs of students, faculty and administrators—the entireenterprise of higher learning— have made him an asset not only to Penn, but to all concerned withimproving higher education in our country.” VP Scheman praised Mr. Morse’s work with all levelsof government, “building bridges between Congress and the education community at a time whenthe public perception of the role of colleges and universities was undergoing tremendous change.He leaves the University a legacy of excellent relations with our federal elected leaders.”

Preparing to Make the PennCard a ‘Smart Card’In Progress: A Campus Card Steering Committee

As the University’s PennCard is readied for upgrade to a “smart card” with new functions,Vice President for Business Services Steve Murray has announced preparations for a CampusCard Steering Committee with purview over the policies, procedures and services related tothe card’s use. “The PennCard has historically served as the official University identificationcard,” said Mr. Murray. “It is now used widely for building access, especially in residencehalls; but it is also used with dining meal plans, recreation and library services, and purchasesat the Bookstore and other locations.

Newer cards have digital photos and these photos may also be used for other purposes,including class rosters and school yearbooks. In August 1997, the PennCard will provide avariety of new financial services to students, faculty, staff and alumni as the new PennCashprogram is rolled out for Fall 1997.

“The charge of the Campus Card Steering Committee will be to review the current policiesand business rules governing PennCard use, to provide input into the rollout of the newPennCash services, and to provide ongoing oversight of future uses of the PennCard,” Mr.Murray said. “Initial areas of discussion will include privileges granted by each type of card,use of SSN, card fees, and digital photos.

The Campus Card Steering Committee will be chaired by Laurie Cousart, Director ofTelecommunications, who will now also have administrative responsibility for the PennCardDepartment, headed by Frank Neithammer. Membership of the PennCard Steering Commit-tee will include representatives of the Offices of the President, Provost, VPUL, ISC, StudentFinancial Serices, Student Information Services, Public Safety, University Libraries, HumanResources, Development & Alumni Relations, and Intercollegiate Athletics. Represenationwill also be invited for undergraduate and graduate student leaders, the University Councilon Communications, and the Faculty Senate.

To the University Community: Re Uses of the Magnetic StripeBusiness Services and Information Systems & Computing will soon begin modifications

to the information that is encoded on the magnetic stripe of the PennCard. These changes willpermit the introduction of additional services using the PennCard that are expected for Fall1997 and will also introduce an alternate identification number to the Social Security Numberthat is currently in use as an identification number for students, faculty and staff.

These changes will be implemented in such as way to prevent any disruption of servicesthat currently use the encoded data on the PennCard magnetic stripe, including dining mealplans, building and room access, Van Pelt Library, and purchases at the Bookstore, WhartonReprographics, Chats, Stern Dining, and High Rise Commissaries. Provisions are beingmade to handle these changes for the card readers and systems that are linked to and managedby PennCard (dining, access, library, bookstore, etc.).

We are concerned, however, that there may be other areas of campus that are swiping thePennCard and using the data on the magnetic stripe for purposes of which we are unaware.The planned changes to the PennCard magnetic stripe will impact those services.

If you are aware of any use of the PennCard magnetic stripe in your school or center, pleaseimmediately contact Frank Neithammer, Director, PennCard Center, at 898-9810 or atfrank@dining. upenn.edu so that arrangements can be made to include your area’s use of thePennCard in the planned modifications. Thanks for your help.

— Steve Murray, Vice President for Business Services— Jim O’Donnell, Acting Vice Provost for Information Systems & Computing

RESPONSEto the Ad Hoc Committee Report onBenefits Redesign continued from page 7

one of those discretionary items that makPenn’s employee benefit rate relatively higand is enjoyed by relatively few employeeTuition reimbursement was also mentioneprominently in the recent Time magazine article,“Why Colleges Cost Too Much,” which featured Penn in its discussion of the high cost education.

Although most faculty and staff understanand appreciate the recommendation to eliminathis benefit, we have heard considerable suppin the community for retaining this benefit focurrent employees. Of all of the recommendtions, this was the only one that arose regulaas a source of concern in our meetings wfaculties in the different schools.

Life InsuranceThe Ad Hoc Committee’s primary recom

mendation with respect to life insurance is ththe salary increase resulting from the elimintion of flex-dollars be reported separately frothe regular annual adjustment. This has been working assumption and we are studying thmechanics of accomplishing that objective.

The Ad Hoc Committee also suggests “thamore inclusive flexible benefits program be stuied for possible implementation.” Although it isnot our intention to reopen issues resolved thyear, the Benefits Redesign report does conta recommendation that “the benefits packageits entirety should be reviewed annually.” In thspirit, the University will continue to analyze thvalue of implementing other benefits progradesigns.

Benefits forRegular Part-Time Employees

The Ad Hoc Committee is supportive of thchange made to benefits for part-time emploees and favors continued consideration of adtional benefits for part-time employees. The beefits for part-time employees will continue to ba topic for regular benefits review in the futur

ConclusionIn its conclusion, the Ad Hoc Committee

faults Penn for not having a benefits philosophor more specifically, for not having a total compensation philosophy.

The recommendations for benefits redesig,published in Almanac on February 11, 1997, docontain a set of specific principles. These priciples played an integral role in developing thentire set of recommendations.

The issue of a total compensation philosopis more complex. Benefits are a complex topand the Benefits Advisory Committee and thAcademic Planning and Budget Committee fcused on benefits and did not do a separate new study of wage trends or trends in othfactors that affect Penn’s faculty. Both commitees, however, were aware of wages of Pefaculty and the high relative standing of thoswages, as noted, for example, in the AAUP dacited above. The idea of the development ototal compensation philosophy is a good one aone that should guide future benefits discu

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Call for Proposals: Boettner Financial Gerontology Research Fund, Spring 1997

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Aging — both population aging and individual aging — is a fundamtal social, financial, and demographic characteristic of contemposociety. It is widely recognized that the quality of life of aging individuand aging societies is intertwined with the acquisition and depletiohuman resources, including financial resources. Of equal importancthe subjective characteristics of financial resources which can binstrumental as their objective characteristics in affecting a persquality of life. This awareness directs concern to such life-span issuemployment and retirement; spending and saving; planning for heillness, and death. Attention must be paid to relationships among prsector institutions and public policies—especially as these influepersonal and family decision making.

Note that the focus here is on the dynamics of aging: gerontology study of the multiple processes of aging. It is not simply a focus onaged” or “the elderly.” Financial gerontology, therefore, is as interestemiddle aging as in older aging, and in social and family inter-relationsamong men and women of different ages and generations.

The Boettner Center of Financial Gerontology was established in through the interest and generosity of the late Joseph E. Boettner awife Ruth Elizabeth Boettner, to advance understanding of the relaships among aging, financial issues, and quality of life. In pursuincomprehensive program of applied research in financial gerontologBoettner Center’s aim is to support systematic investigation of the imof both population aging and individual aging, on patterns of finanwell-being within and across generations. The Boettner Center beaffiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and with the Schof Social Work in 1995. The goal of the Boettner Financial GerontolResearch Fund is to support social research by senior researchers, and doctoral students which promises both to promote knowledge aenhance professional practice and social policy, with the broader sogoal of enhancing the financial well-being and life satisfaction of agpersons in contemporary society.

Proposal GuidelinesA major objective of the Boettner Center is to encourage research

explores the linkages among aging, financial dynamics, and the qualife of aging individuals, families, and populations. In pursuit of tobjective, the Boettner Financial Gerontology Research Fund was elished at the School of Social Work to support a program of small resegrants in three important categories: (1) seed money for innovativeprojects that can lead to proposals that will be competitive for extefunding; (2) projects requiring modest support for completion and pucation; (3) dissertation support for Ph.D. Candidates.

Priority will be given to projects that develop new initiatives in onethree main areas: (1) research on policy and practice issues relevanmajor themes of financial gerontology, including but not limitedsocioeconomic variations in retirement preparation, intergeneraticare-giving, factors influencing patterns of spending and savings,patterns of health care needs of middle-age and older-age populatioconferences for either professional or public audiences on topics expllinkages among aging, financial dynamics, and quality of life; andcurriculum development for graduate-level courses in social workfinancial gerontology.

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Poster Session on Aging: May 15The work of over100 Penn researchers from medicine, nursing,

dentistry, psychiatry, economics and many other disciplines willbe represented in the Institute on Aging’s Ninth Annual PosterSession, to be held on May 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Ralston House,3615 Chestnut Street. Faculty will be on hand to discuss their workwith visitors.

The poster sessions are free and open to the public as part of theInstitute’s effort to promote understanding of the aging process andto enhance the quality of life of the elderly through interdiscipli-nary research, education, and clinical care programs, said theInstitute’s Ed Horen. For additional information, he can be reachedat 898-3188 or by fax at 3-8684.

Eligibility for Boettner Research Awards: proposals for the spring997 competition are invited from university faculty and full-time re-earch staff, conducting or planning research in the areas listed above

Doctoral students are encouraged to submit proposals to the Boettnund. To be eligible: by the start date of the proposed award, the studenissertation proposal must have been accepted by the appropriate graduommittee. Boettner dissertation fellowships may include full or partiaupport for the appropriate academic period, thesis fees, and limiteesearch expenses (the justification for which should be clearly identifien the budget).

Requirements for proposals: the guidelines for proposals are as fol-ows:

1. Size of awards (maximum per award):aculty and senior researcher awards: $20,000; student awards: $10,0

2. Use of funds: data collection and analysis, research assistance,alary (including benefits), essential research-related travel,nd manuscript preparation and publication costs

3. The proposal: limited to 10 single-spaced pagesi) Cover page: Name and title of principal investigator

Title of proposalAmount requested100-word abstract of needName of co-investigator or thesis advisorAmount and sources of current research supportOther pending proposals for the same or related project

ii) Brief curriculum vitae of principal investigator (2 pages)iii) introduction: (2-3 pp.): statement of the objectives and sig-

nificance of the work and its relevance to financial gerontologyiv) Description of the project (including research design, data

sources, methods of analysis)v) If the grant is for a pilot study, how will the project

Facilitate acquisition of future research funds, includingfunding agencies to be approached

vi) Brief plan for the completion, publication, and dissemination ofresults/materials generated by the project; if a conference,how conference proceedings will be edited and disseminated

vii) Budget (one-page): explicit as to amounts, use of, andRationale for requests; include timetable [one year preferred,two-year plan acceptable]

4. Submit 10 copies of the proposal, plus a disk with the proposal iordPerfect or Microsoft Word format to:

Steven J. Devlin, Ph.D., Acting DirectorBoettner Center of Financial GerontologySchool of Social Work3701 Locust Walk, Caster BuildingPhiladelphia, PA 19104-6214

5. Reports: a report is required at the proposed termination date of throject, and upon completion if there is an extension. To meet the publissemination goals of the Boettner Center, twobrief (one-page) de-criptions of the project, aimed at the educated non-specialist, are ruired. The first, describing the proposed project, must be submitted pri

o release of funds; the second, describing outcomes and results, mustubmitted upon completion of the project. Individuals receiving Boettneinancial Gerontology Research Fund Awards will also be asked trepare a one-hour presentation on their projects as part of the lectueries sponsored by the boettner center and the School of Social Wor

6. Human subjects: all research projects involving human subjectsust receiveInstitutional Review Board (IRB) approval prior to funding.pplicants are not required to receive IRB approval prior to submission o

heir proposal. However, funds will only be released to awardees followng IRB review and approval.

Review Procedures: proposals will be reviewed by the financialerontology research committee which includes representatives of tharious academic centers in the university community applicants will botified of the decision of the committee approximately one month afte

he submission deadline. Funding will begin july 1, 1997. We anticipateunding three or four projects.

For additional information about the Boettner Center or the Boettneinancial Gerontology Research Fund, please contact: Steven J. Devl98-6475, Fax: 573-3418, or E-mail: sdevlin@ssw.upenn.edu.

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OPPORTUNITIES at PENN

ARTS AND SCIENCESFISCAL COORDINATOR II (03309SH) Generateand analyze accounting reports in FinMis and sal-ary reports in Salary Management; manage grantand department funds and resolve problems; enterjournals; assist B.A. in budget planning; managepayroll for weekly and monthly employees; pro-cess payroll reallocations; interact with officesinside and outside the university in ensuring com-pliance with University policies and federal regu-lations; establish and modify data systems for de-partment administrative use; determine currentneeds of business office, enacting policies andprocedures to meet. Qualifications: BA/BS, pref-erably in accounting or equivalent; one to threeyears experience in fiscal operations or equivalent;strong decision-making and analytical abilities;extensive computer and database experience; ex-cellent interpersonal and organizational skills; fa-miliarity with University policies and procedurespreferred; working knowledge of FinMis and Sal-ary Management preferred. Grade: P2; Range:$22,351-29,098 3-17-97 Economics

LAN SPECIALIST (03310SH) Provide systemmaintenance for the central SAS PC network serv-ers; advise and assist the departmental liaisons insupporting departmental LAN; assist DL’s in de-veloping training plans and procedures for: pre-ventive maintenance, software/hardware evalua-tion and correction, disaster recovery; providebackup support for network staff. Qualifications:BA/BS, technical knowledge of networks, operat-ing systems, Ethernet, TCP/IP, network cabling;excellent interpersonal and communications skills;problem solving ability with a minimum of fiveyears of experience in computer networking/com-munications; PC Window experience required;strong Novell (CNE) and Windows NT Server/Workstation knowledge preferred. Grade: P7;Range: $36,050-46,814 3-17-97 SAS Computing

RESEARCH SPECIALIST, JR. (03311SH) Re-search assistant report to professor of cognitivepsychology; schedule & run experimental sessions;collect & organize data; run data analysis programs& perform literature searches. Qualifications: BA/BS in psychology, cognitive science or relatedfield; previous research experience preferred; fa-miliarity with Macintosh & PC computers; profi-ciency in typing required. Grade: P1; Range:$20,291-26,368 3-18-97 Psychology

DENTAL SCHOOLCLERK V (03339CP) Verify insurance coveragefor dental patients; assist students with dental treat-ment plans related to level of insurance coverage;research insurance rejections; investigate & re-solve outstanding balances on charts assigned toInsurance; comply with request for additional in-formation on filed claims; assist with application ofinsurance checks on patients account. Qualifica-tions: HS diploma; two years related clerical/dental insurance experience; knowledge of thirdparty billing; good telephone and interpersonalskills required. Grade: G8; Range: $16,171-20,2403-18-97 Administrative Affairs

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR I (03329SH) Assistin budget preparation; responsible to Comptroller forall administration, management & budgeting for of-fice working under broad guide lines and exercisingown judgement & discretion; monitor & reconcilebudgets & reallocate funds; review & analyze data &develop alternatives & recommendations; process allpersonnel data on-line including HR-1’s & HR-2’sfor department; interpret policies & procedures on aregular basis to field personnel.Qualifications: BA/BS, preferably in accounting, business or finance orequivalent education & exp.; three to five years expe-rience in administration; thorough knowledge of of-fice standards & practices; willingness to work withconfidential material with discretion; knowledge ofWordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, & FinMis preferred.Grade:P3; Range: $24,617-31,982 3-19-97 Office of Comp-trollerPROJECT MANAGER II —FACILITIES MAN-AGEMENT (02262SH)(02263SH) Responsible formanagement of design, engineering, legal, con-struction, and other professionals employed in theplanning and construction of capital projects; man-age financial records, and the development andmaintenance of project budgets and reports. Quali-fications: BA/BS, preferably in construction man-agement, engineering, architecture or related fieldor equivalent; ten years progressively responsibleexperience; supervision of major building renova-tion or construction of new facilities and capitalproject budget preparation and administration; ex-cellent supervisory skills; interpersonal, organiza-tional and communication skills. Grade: P9;Range: $43,569-57,217 Project Management

Listed below are the new job opportuni-ties at the University of Pennsylvania. Wherethe qualifications are described in terms offormal education or training, prior experi-ence in the same field may be substituted.

There are approximately 280 additionalopen positions for examination at the JobApplication Center, Funderberg InformationCenter, 3401 Walnut St. (215-898-7285).Hours of operation are Monday though Fri-day, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. New openings are also

New Jobs for the week of March 25, 1997

Where to Find the Job Opportunities—Here and Elsewhereposted daily at the following locations:Blockley Hall, the Wharton School and theDental School.

A full listing of job opportunities is at theHuman Resource Services website:wwwupenn.edu/hr/. Current employees need-ing access to the web, may go to the Com-puter Resource Center at 3732 Locust Walkwith your PENNCard to obtain a list of com-puter labs on campus available for your use.

In addition, almost every public library in

the Delaware Valley now provides web ac-cess. In the near future, as our office remod-els the Job Application Center, we hope tohave computers available for current em-ployees and others to peruse the current jobopenings. Openings are also mailed to ap-proximately 50 community sites weekly.Please note: Faculty positions and positionsat the Hospital and Health Systems are notincluded in these listings. For Hospital andHealth System openings, contact 662-2999.

How to Apply• Current Employees can call 898-7285to obtain the name of the hiring officer forthe available position, (please provideyour social security number for verifica-tion and the position reference number).Internal applicants should forward a coverletter and resume directly to the hiringofficer. A transfer application is no longerneeded!• External Applicants should come tothe Application Center to complete anapplication. Applicants interested in sec-retarial, administrative assistant, or otheroffice support positions, will have an ap-pointment scheduled for a technology as-sessment as part of the application pro-cess.

Schools and CentersPenn is a large community made up ofmany schools and centers which havetheir own character and environment. Theopenings listed here are arranged bySchool or Center.

Staff Recruiters have been assigned toSchools and Centers as follows:

Alicia Brill:Wharton School andAresty Institute for Executive Education

Susan Hess:Development,School of Arts & Sciences,Executive Vice President, andNursing School

Clyde Peterson:Annenberg School,Dental School,Graduate School of Fine Arts,Graduate School of Education,Law School,Provost,School of Engineering & Applied Science,School of Social Work, andVice Provost for University Life

Ronald Story:Medical School

The initials of the Staff Recruiter are indi-cated at the end of the position referencenumber.

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GRAD SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONPROJECT MANAGER III (03323CP) Conductresearch projects independently as a principal in-vestigator; lead project development (includingwriting proposals and meeting with sponsors); su-pervise research staff; coordinate research withother senior researchers; represent CPRE at meet-ings and conferences and present research find-ings. Qualifications: Ph.D. in social science disci-pline, educational research or a related field; five toseven yrs experience in education or related research;experience with management of research projectspreferred; demonstrated publication and presenta-tions in the field of education research; knowledge ofboth qualitative and quantitative techniques preferred;experience with survey design and analysis of largedatabases desirable; excellent writing and communi-cations skills are necessary; this position will requiremuch travel; submit writing samples as well as coverletter with vita and references. (On- going contin-gent upon grant funding) Grade: P8; Range:$39,655-52,015 CPRERESEARCH SPECIALIST III (03322CP)(03349CP) Conduct research projects with highdegree of autonomy; project development (includ-ing writing proposals); supervise support staff;coordinate research with other CPRE researchers;represent CPRE at meetings, conferences andpresent research findings. Qualifications: Mas-ters degree required, Ph.D. preferred, in socialscience discipline, educational research or a relatedfield; three to five yrs experience in education,government or related research preferred; experi-ence conducting qualitative research and/or inproject management would be highly desirable;knowledge of both qualitative and quantitativetechniques preferred; experience with survey de-sign and analysis or large databases desirable;excellent writing and communication skills arenecessary; proficient using a personal computerwith experience in Windows 95, WordPerfect orWord, highly desirable; knowledge of SAS, SPSSor similar statistical package and Ethnograph plus;this position will require travel. (On-going contin-gent upon grant funding) Grade: P4; Range:$26,986-35,123 CPREPART-TIME (EDITOR) (03321CP) (25 HRS) LeadCPRE’s publication and outreach programs in anautonomous and highly proactive manner for ourhighly visible national research and disseminationcenter; represent CPRE at meetings and confer-ences; organize and conduct press conferences;maintain a relationship with the education media;organize collaborative dissemination effortsthrough affiliated organizations; manage CPRE’spublication activity; supervise staff; write CPREpolicy briefs and similar publications; substan-tively edit CPRE reports/articles/documents. Quali-fications: BA/BS; Masters degree in education,graduate course work or degree in education orrelated field; demonstrated experience editing, pre-paring and producing publications; three to five yrsproactive public relations and dissemination expe-rience; knowledge and experience in education andawareness or current education reform efforts ishighly desirable; mechanical and substantive edit-ing; strong oral and written communication skills;proficient using a personal computer with experi-ence in Windows 95, WordPerfect and Word;demonstrated experience using the Internet as anoutreach and information gathering tool; submit writ-ing samples as well as cover letter with vita andreferences. (On-going contingent upon availablefunding) Grade: P5; Range: $21,188-27,626 CPREADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT III (03320CP)(37.5 HRS) Perform executive-level administra-tive/secretarial duties; exercise considerable judg-

ment, problem-solving and analysis in implement-ing tasks; type and proofread standard, complexand confidential materials; polish/format docu-ments for final camera-ready production; checkcitations and proof articles for publication, pulltogether bibliographies from source material; rep-resent office through telephone and personal con-tact; develop and maintain filing system; scheduleappointments; schedule and coordinate meetings;prepare routine correspondence; assist with prepa-ration for special events; prepare proposals forresearch projects; coordinate travel arrangementsand hotel accommodations; respond to requests forinformation from constituents; supervise work studystudents and secretary/receptionist. Qualifications:HS diploma; BA/BS preferred; ability to work onseveral projects and for several people simulta-neously; excellent organizational and oral and writ-ten communication skills; excellent WordPerfect6.0 and Windows skills; transcription skills highlydesirable; two years experience at the AA II levelor comparable background. (On-going contingentupon grant funding) Grade: G11; Range:$21,961-27,866 3-18-97 CPRE

GRAD SCHOOL OF FINE ARTSCLERK V (03337CP) Act as building contact andcall in all emergencies to physical plant and house-keeping; maintain building logs on repair request;schedule additional physical plant services for spe-cial events and special cleaning times; notify ad-ministrative offices and departments when ser-vices will effect their areas or activities; coordinatethe movement of furniture from office to office;receive, sort and distribute mail to department mailboxes. Qualifications: HS diploma; two years ofoffice experience in high client contact environment;must have good interpersonal and communicationskills; must be able to lift reams of paper, handlepackages up to 25 lbs and able to move small furnituresuch as chairs and tables. Grade: G8; Range: $16,171-20,240 3-18-97 Dean’s Office

MEDICAL SCHOOLOFFICE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR I(0197RS) Provide information systems technicalsupport to end users; install and configure serverhardware; perform maintenance on servers includ-ing regular back-ups, physical security, virus pro-tection, hardware and software upgrades; identify,troubleshoot and resolve network failures and prob-lems; refer more complex problems to supervisor;plan and monitor server capacity; maintain userand group accounts; administer network security;purchase, install, configure, maintain and trouble-shoot hardware and software issues; research, evalu-ate, recommend and test pilot hardware and soft-ware. Qualifications: Associate degree in com-puter science or equivalent; two years experiencein related computer support; experience withLAN’s, preferably AppleTalk and/or Novell; pre-vious work experience in an academic environ-ment helpful; knowledge of various hardware andsoftware applications, including word processing,spreadsheets, databases and other productivity tools;Word, Excel, Mail, Netscape, Filemaker, Eudora,Mac strongly preferred; ability to work indepen-dently and collaboratively; excellent communica-tion, interpersonal and organizational skills. Grade:P2; Range: $22,351-29,098 3-18-97 IHGTRESEARCH SPECIALIST I (03336RS) Maintainbreast cancer lines; prepare DNA for transfection;transfer cell lines, immunoprecipitation andimmunoblat in vitro kinase assay. Qualifications:BA/BS required; one to two years practical labexperience; tissue culture, basic DNA and proteintechniques. Grade: P2; Range: $22,351-29,098

3-18-97 Pathology/Laboratory MedicineRESEARCH SPECIALIST II (03367RS) Performprocedures in histology and immunochemistry,including cutting paraffin plastic embedded & fro-zen tissues; handle troubleshooting & staining ofnew antibodies; perform special staining of tissues;handle breeding animals (mice); maintain equip-ment related to the above procedure. Qualifica-tions: BA/BS in scientific or related field; three tofive yrs. experience in similar project; at least threeyrs. of histology related experience. Grade: P3;Range: $24,617-31,982 3-21-97 Medicine/G.I.RESEARCH SPECIALIST III (03368RS) Act asTechnical Director of the Morphology Core; per-form procedures in histology and immunochemis-try involving cutting paraffin and plastic embed-ded and frozen tissues; handle troubleshooting thestaining of new antibodies; perform special stain-ing of tissues; handle breeding animals (mice);maintain related equipment; develop and cataloganimal and human tissues; establish computer da-tabase of tissues & slides; aid in preparation ofgrants & proposals; ability to work independently& act as supervisor for technicians. Qualifica-tions: BA/BS; three to five yrs. experience inscientific or related area; at least five yrs. of histol-ogy laboratory experience; good communicationskills and computer proficiency. Grade: P4;Range: $26,986-35,123 3-21-97 Medicine/G.I.ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT I (03344RS) (40HRS) Monitor telephone and intercom lines, takemessages; receive and greet patients; make patientappointments; receive and records patient pay-ments, provide follow-up; answer questions aboutpatient registration and the operation of the facilityand insure accurate completion of registrationmaterials by patient; prepare receipts and maintainrecords of insurance transactions; maintain patientfiles/charts; prepare forms for reimbursement pay-ments and ordering supplies; review monthly state-ments from research grants and clinical income.Qualifications: Completion of a high school busi-ness curriculum and related post high school train-ing or the equivalent; two to four yrs of clericalexperience in clinical or research setting; detail-oriented; excellent oral and written communica-tion skills; excellent interpersonal skills; ability tooperate standard office equipment. Grade: G9;Range: $20,130-25,133 PsychiatryADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT III (03333JZ)Monitor projects and reports; organize, scheduleand coordinate project meetings; provide logisticalplanning support for national and internationalconferences; arrange complex travel itineraries;compose and draft reports and/or correspondence;act as liaison for staff; manage Senior AssociateDean, Associate Dean and Coordinator’s sched-ules and appointments; screen incoming telephonecalls and correspondence assist with developmentand maintenance of the filing system; assist withword processing, database management and re-lated computer-based functions; record expendi-tures, submit receipts for reimbursement. Qualifi-cations: HS diploma; BA preferred; two yearsexperience in an AA II position or equivalent,preferably in an academic environment; strongorganizational, oral and communication skills;mature judgement and attention to detail; ability tohandle multiple tasks simultaneously; proficiencyin a foreign language is desirable; experience withMac preferred, word processing and base skills.Grade: G11; Range: $20,497-26,008 3-17-97Office of International Medical ProgramsADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT III (40 HRS)(03293RS) Provide secretarial and administrativesupport to the Center for Cancer Pharmacology;use office and lab software; draft routine corre-spondence; answer phones and respond to general

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inquiries; schedule meetings; organize and main-tain filing systems and databases; type and proof-read correspondence and other materials. Qualifi-cations: Associate’s degree or college background;three to five years as AA I; type 60 wpm anddictaphone experience preferred; Word,WordPerfect, Excel, Meeting maker, PowerPoint,File maker Pro preferred. (Application deadlinedate: 3-24-97) Grade: G11; Range: $23,425-29,723 3-18-97 PharmacologyCLERK II (03343RS) Under direct supervision,perform general clerical duties following standardprocedures; duties include, but are not limited to:copying of simple to complex materials, answeringtelephones; ability to operate office equipment; actas messenger to ensure delivery and return ofreports; assist in maintaining patient charts, pull,fill and duplicate; other duties as assigned. Quali-fications: High school graduate or equivalent; 6months clerical experience; ability to take directions;willingness to learn and develop new skills; detailoriented, good telephone and interpersonal skills;ability to work with a diverse group of medicalpersonnel; good typing skills, computer knowledgeand prior medical experience desirable. Grade: G5;Range: $12,875-15,811 Cancer CenterDATA ENTRY OPERATOR (03330RS) Performdata entry; review new data packets for identifyinginformation; maintain flow of data entry system;file data packets; organize and maintain filingsystem; answer telephones and provide adminis-trative support to the coordinator; maintain organi-zation of the Data Management Unit’s office. Quali-fications: HS diploma or equivalent; post high-school training in data entry or equivalent experi-ence; proficiency in computer use, especially indata entry programs; certificate in data entry pre-ferred; strong organization and communicationskills. Grade: G7; Range: $14,935-18,592 3-17-97 PsychiatryOFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT(03345RS) (40 HRS) Provide website data coordi-nation and searches; provide administrative cleri-cal support to IOA administrative staff and fellows;answer and screen incoming calls; greet and screenvisitors and provide campus escort; assist financialadministrator in the preparation of requests fordisbursements, including account coding; provideback-up for entering purchasing on FinMis system;enter data into database; provide support for grantand research activities process letters, memoranda,and spreadsheets using required software pack-ages; develop and maintain filing systems; coordi-nate and schedule meetings/conferences; purchaseoffice supplies and equipments. Qualifications:HS required, BA/BS preferred; four yrs adminis-trative/office assistant experience; working knowl-edge of office equipment and machinery; workingknowledge of PCS and software; good written/verbal communication skills; good organizationalcoordination; must handle multiple priorities si-multaneously and efficiently. Grade: G10; Range:$22,013-27,427 Institute on AgingOFFICE SYSTEMS COORDINATOR (03332RS)Provide secretarial and administrative support forfaculty and research staff; perform sophisticatedword processing, elementary database and spread-sheet operations and presentation graphics in Win-dows NT environment; provide editorial assis-tance, maintain records and files, arrange meetingsand conferences, monitor reimbursements. Quali-fications: HS diploma; two years associate degreeor some college preferred; two years office experi-ence; experience in academic setting preferred;training in PC application, including word process-ing, spreadsheet, database management and pre-sentation graphics; knowledge of medical termi-nology; highly organized and meticulous; ability towork with limited supervision. Grade: G11;

Range: $20,497-26,008 3-17-97 Center for Clini-cal Epidemiology and BiostatisticsRESEARCH LAB TECH II (03295RS) Procure-ment, tissue culture & harvest of leukemic blood &bone marrow for cytogenetic analysis; routine labmaintenance; record keeping, microscopy, photo-copy, karyotyping of human chromosomes. Quali-fications: Minimum HS biology/chemistry withlab experience; prefer at least two yrs collegescience; tissue culture ability; knowledge of genet-ics, hematology desirable. Grade: G8; Range:$16,171-20,240 PathologyRESEARCH LAB TECH III (40HRS) (03342RS)Follow established protocols; set up and carry outexperiments involving general anesthetic pharma-cology; small animal handling/preparations; makesolutions; operate centrifuges, scintillation counters,gas chromatograph, balances and ph meters; inputcomputer data; keep logs and write lab reports;maintain lab equipment and supplies. Qualifica-tions: BA/BS with interest in biological sciencespreferred; general alb experience helpful. Grade:G10; Range: $22,013-27,427 3-18-97 Anesthesia PART-TIME (SECURITY OFFICER) (22HRS)(03362RS) (03363RS) Perform wide varietyof tasks such as tour & inspect facilities; receiveand clear visitors & issue temporary identification;check identification of individuals in buildingsafter hours; alert University Police of any suspi-cious persons found in the are & enforce Schooland University policy. Qualifications: Comple-tion of high school business curriculum and relatedpost high school training or equivalent; physicallyable to move about actively, extensive walking andstair climbing required; must not be squeamish orbothered by unpleasant odors; good interpersonalskills to interact effectively with a large & diverseconstituency; strong customer service orientation;ability to remain alert during periods of low activ-ity. (Ability and willingness to work at nights andon weekends as required; must be able to workovertime on short notice; applicants will have tosuccessfully pass a Police background securitycheck.) Grade: G8; Range: $8,885-11,121 3-21-97 Architect & Facilities Management

PROVOST

SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER III (03306CP) Par-ticipate in design/development of WAN strategiesfor campus Internet connectivity and for Penn’sparticipation in research networks like vBNS andInternet II; campus network strategies enablingQoS data networking and remote-use/remote-of-fice access strategies for remote connections toPenn’s campus networks; resolve complex net-work problems relating to hardware, protocols,applications and operating systems; provide expertthird-tier networking support to other ISC staff;track advancements in new networking technologyand provide reports on findings; help establishstandards and evaluate hard and software productsfor network infrastructure use. Qualifications:BA/BS in engineering; at least three years experi-ence in design and implementation of networks,preferably in an Internet-connected environment;expert knowledge of WAN protocols and relatedhardware; expertise with configuration of routersand switches for use on data networks; solid under-standing of and experience with TCP/IP and nativenetworking for DOS, Windows and Macintoshcomputers; demonstrated knowledge of modems,communications servers; some experience withnetworked UNIX computers and at least one pro-gramming language; good writing and group-work-ing skills. Grade: P8; Range: $39,655-52,015 3-17-97 ISC-NetworkingSTACK ATTENDANT (03324CP) Physical ar-rangement and order of materials for collections;

shelve and store materials in accordance with clas-sification system; work on book shifting projects;substitute on circulation desk; provide directionalinformation and assistance to users; serve occa-sionally as messenger on and off campus; packbooks and prepare materials for moving and ship-ping. Qualifications: HS diploma; college preferred;previous library experience preferred. Grade/Range:Union; 3-17-97 Library CirculationTECH, VET ANESTHESIA I (40HRS) (03325CP)Induce and monitor anesthesia and recovery in awide variety of animal species for University in-vestigations; maintain supplies and equipment;perform medical treatments including bloodcrawing, administer medications, obtaining radio-graphs and monitoring animal colony health assistand instruct investigators and students in biomedi-cal procedures; maintain animal health records,inventory equipment, supply logs and daily treat-ment schedules. Qualifications: HS diploma;completion of accredited Vet. Tech program or BSin Animal Sciences; two years experience at theVet. Tech II level; highly motivated with excellentorganizational skills; ability to work independentlyand lift 50 lbs; valid PA driver’s license required.Grade: G11; Range: $23,425-29,723 3-18-97 Uni-versity Veterinarian

VETERINARY SCHOOL

CUSTODIAL WORKER (03352RS) Perform vari-ety of custodial tasks under supervision of contrac-tual supervisor; keep floors, equipment, operatingrooms, recovery stalls & related areas clean; main-tain laboratory, offices, public areas, etc; reportmalfunctioning equipment, such as heating, light-ing & ventilation. Qualifications: HS graduate orequivalent; familiarity with all types of cleaningequipment; experienced in hospital cleaning envi-ronment preferred; able to move about freely &perform strenuous work (lift up to 50 lbs); validdriver’s license required. (Work schedule mayrequire on-call duties and occasional week-ends) (Position located in Kennett Square, PA-there is no public transportation available)Grade: G5; Range: $14,714-18,069 3-20-97 LargeAnimal Hospital/NBCVET, TECH TRAINEE (03351RS) Clean and stock

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HELP WANTED— University of Pennsylvania—AmericanMusicological Society: Secretary/Recep-tionist (part-time, temporary). Duties: re-ceptionist (telephone, mail, general inquir-ies); basic accounts payable/receivable;routine correspondence; publicationspreparation; sales fulfillment. Qualifica-tions: high school diploma or equivalent;one year secretarial experience; excellentcommunication skills; PC skills, includingaccounting and word processing; data-base experience preferred. EOE/ADA.Send cover letter, resume to: AmericanMusicological Society, 201 S. 34th St.,Philadelphia, PA 19104-6313.

WANTED— Native Chinese looking for studentsstudying Chinese language for conversa-tion and language partner. (302) 292-8821or qwang@hopi.dtcc.edu

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necropsy room; assist pathologists performingnecropsies; assist with sample accessioning, pack-aging and storage. Qualifications: HS graduate;ability to lift up to 50 lbs; good organizational andinterpersonal skills. (Position located in KennettSquare, PA-there is no public transportationavailable) Grade: G7; Range: $8,534.24-10,6233-20-97 Pathobiology

WHARTON SCHOOLASSISTANT DIRECTOR VI (03348AB) Recruit& manage consulting staff of 15-20; develop ap-propriate training programs & execute for all newconsulting staff; responsible for all aspects of de-veloping the Center’s client base; assist Director inoverall operation & administration of the Center,and oversee database. Qualifications: BA/BS re-quired; advanced degree preferred; 3-5 years ofrelevant business management experience pre-ferred; expertise accounting, finance, marketing,and new venture, and demonstrated interest inentrepreneurship. Grade: P7; Range: $36,050-46,814 3-20-97 Wharton SBDCINFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST I(03347AB) Provide technical support for class-room technology to faculty, students & corpora-tions; resolve desktop, network & multimedia hard-ware & software problems; evaluate & recommendnew technology; manage video and video–conferencing services; supervise evening shift; trainfaculty on the use of classroom systems. Qualifi-cations: BA/BS; 2-4 yrs. experience in computingand multimedia support; in depth knowledge ofWindows/Intel computer systems required; work-ing knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet,electronic mail and WWW required; demonstratedskill in computer troubleshooting and diagnostics;experience with projection systems, video produc-tion, video editing, and videoconferencing; someknowledge of data networks, telecommunicationsor electronics helpful; excellent customer serviceskills essential; exceptional organizational andcommunication (both oral and written) skills re-quired; ability to work independently & as a mem-ber of a team; ability to work well under conditionsof stress & rapid change necessary; must be able tophysically lift lbs. and move about actively. (Dueto academic calendar, vacation may not be takenfrom mid August through the month of Septem-ber) Grade: P4; Range: $26,986-35,123 3-21-97WCITPROGRAMMER ANALYST I/II (03346AB) Per-form detailed needs analysis, system design, cod-ing, testing, debugging, documentation, implemen-tation and support of administrative informationsystems on PC, LAN, client/server and Web envi-ronments; support administrative users and their ISrequirements for data storage, manipulation, re-porting and analysis; analyze, customize, imple-ment and support vendor-supplied information sys-tems; provide front-line support to users on PCapplications, Novell or NT networks and data ac-cess. Qualifications: BA/BS, preferably in com-puter science or management information systems,or comparable experience; strong expertise in C,Perl or Pascal required; knowledge of addit majorlanguages/tools, object oriented development toolssuch as Visual Basic or Visual C++highly pre-ferred; thorough working knowledge of RDBMStechnologies; knowledge of Oracle, Ingres, Informixor Sybase highly preferred; thorough knowledge ofUNIX or NT; experience working with multipleconstituencies, conflicting priorities, and user sup-

port highly preferred; strong desire to solve users’IS problems and provide good customer service;knowledge of various project life cycle manage-ment techniques highly desirable; knowledge ofcode management software a plus; experience cre-ating and managing own project time schedulesdesirable; demonstrated ability to communicateeffectively, both orally and in writing, with usersand IS staff. PROG. ANA. I: 1-3 yrs. progressivelyresponsible programming and system experience,preferably with production-level multi-user sys-tems. PROG. ANA. II: 2-3 yrs. progressively re-sponsible programming and system experience,preferably with production-level multi-user sys-tems. Grade: P4/P6; Range: $26,986-35,123/$32,857-42,591 3-20-97 WCITPROGRAMMER ANALYST I/II (03354AB) Per-form detailed needs analysis, system design, cod-ing, testing, debugging, documentation, implemen-tation & support of administrative systems on PC,LAN, client/server & Web environments; supportadministrative users & their IS requirements fordata storage, manipulation, report and analysis;analyze, customize, implement and support ven-dor-supplied information systems; provide front-line support to users on PC applications, Novell orNT networks and data access. Qualifications:BA/BS, pref in computer science or managementinformation system or comparable experience;Strong expertise in C, Perl or Pascal req.; highlypreferred: knowledge of additional languages/tools,object oriented development tools such as VisualBasic or Visual C++; thorough working knowledgeof RDBMS technologies; Oracle, Ingres, Informixor Sybase highly preferred; thorough knowledge ofUNIX or NT; experience working with multipleconstituencies, conflicting priorities & user sup-port highly preferred; strong desire to solve users’IS problems & provide good customer service;knowledge of various project life cycle manage-ment techniques highly desirable; knowledge ofcode management software a plus; experience cre-ating and managing own project time schedulesdesirable; demonstrated ability to communicate

OPPORTUNITIES at PENNeffectively, both orally and in writing with users &IS staff. PROG. ANA. I: min of 1-3 yrs. of progres-sively responsible programming and system expe-rience, preferably with production-level multi-usersystems. PROG. ANA. II: min of 2-3 yrs. of pro-gressively responsible programming and systemexperience, preferably with production-level multi-user systems. Grade: P4/P6; Range: $26,986-35,123/$32,857-42,591 3-21-97 WCIT

Campus Police ContractThe University and the Fraternal Or-

der of Police, Lodge #113, have reachedan agreement that successfully concludesseveral months’ contract negotiations, ac-cording to a joint announcement Tues-day.

The terms of the agreement, whichapplies to the police officers, corporals,and detectives in the Division of PublicSafety, have not been disclosed. It will bein effect through July 31, 1999.

Director of Police Operations MaureenS. Rush said the Division is pleased withthe conclusion and “particularly pleasedthat the Division of Public Safety contin-ued to serve the campus community at ahigh level during the course of these ne-gotiations.”

FOP President Hugh McBreen saidthe FOP negotiating committee “did afine job in getting the best possible agree-ment for its members. All parties willcontinue to look at other areas of mutualconcern, but we’re pleased with the settle-ment we’ve reached with Penn.”

A Nonviolent Responseto Violence: March 31

A program called From Fear to Hope: ANonviolent Response to Violence is being pre-sented at the Newman Center on March 31 at7:30 p.m., open to all members of the Unviersitycommunity. Families and friends of victims areguest speakers. They include:

John and Kathy Polec, parents of Eddie Polec,a teenager killed in Northeast Philadelphia;

Richard Rosin, Esq., a friend of Moez Ali-mohamed, the Penn graduate student murderedin University City; and

Corine Toms, whose son was murdered inWest Philadelphia.

Co-sponsors are the University’s Departmentof Public Safety, Office of Community Rela-tions, Chaplin’s Office, and community groupsincluding the Jewish Social Action Committee,Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia,Mantua Against Drugs (MAD), South of MarketAgainst Drugs (SOMAD), Intercultural FamilyServices, Neighborhood Development Project,Covenant Community Church, Maryknoll, St.Agatha St. James Church, and Drexel Newman.

Sign-upSports:Golfing,Fishing andVolleyball

The Department of Recreation an-nounces three April events open to fac-ulty and staff, all with sign-up deadlines:

• Golf Scramble on April 5 at thePrimary Course at Cobbs Creek. The 18-hole game begins at 8 a.m. and all stu-dents, faculty and staff are welcome. Anentry fee of $40 per person includes a golfcart. Deadline for entries: March 31.

• Deep Sea Fishing Trip on April 12on the “Miss Avalon II, ” leaving from theAvalon Fishing Center at 7 a.m. for a 6-hour expedition, with an upper limit of 50people. The cost of $20 per person in-cludes bait; rental of fishing rods is $3.

The Avalon Fishing Center is locatedat 1400 Ocean Drive, Avalon, NJ; (609)967-7455. First come first served.

• Spring Volleyball Tournament,April 15 and 16 at Hutchinson Gym. Sign-up is by teams (men’s, women’s or co-ed); $25 refundable deposit per team mustbe turned in at Gimbel Gymnasium. Entrydeadline is April 11.

For further information on theseevents, contact Murray Grant at the Rec-reation Department at 898-8331.

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The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks tal-ented students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. TheUniversity of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis ofrace, sex, sexual orientation, religion, color, national or ethnicorigin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam Era Veteran ordisabled veteran in the administration of educational policies,programs or activities; admissions policies; scholarship and loanawards; athletic, or other University administered programs oremployment. Questions or complaints regarding this policy shouldbe directed to Howard Arnold, Interim Director, Office of Affirma-tive Action, 1133 Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 or(215) 898-6993 (Voice) or 215-898-7803 (TDD).

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The University of Pennsylvania’s journal of record, opinion andnews is published Tuesdays during the academic year, and asneeded during summer and holiday breaks. Its electronic edi-tions on the Internet (accessible through the PennWeb) includeHTML and Acrobat versions of the print edition, and interiminformation may be posted in electronic-only form. Guidelines forreaders and contributors are available on request.

EDITOR Karen C. GainesASSOCIATE EDITOR Marguerite F. MillerASSISTANT EDITOR Mary SchollWORK-STUDY STUDENTS Sonia Bazán, Radhika Chinai,

Lateef Jones, Tony LouieUCHS INTERN Kathy Lynn, Christal SpiveyALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD: For the Faculty Senate, MartinPring (Chair), Jacqueline M. Fawcett, Phoebe S. Leboy, Peter J.Kuriloff, Ann E. Mayer, Vivian Seltzer. For the Administration, KenWildes. For the Staff Assemblies, Berenice Saxon for PPSA, DianeWaters for A-3 Assembly, and Joe Zucca for Librarians Assembly.

The Compass stories are written and edited by theOffice of University Relations, University of Pennsylvania.ACTING MANAGING EDITOR Libby RosofNEWS STAFF: Jon Caroulis, Phyllis Holtzman, Carl Maugeri,Esaúl Sánchez, Kirby F. Smith, Sandy SmithDESIGNER Brad BarthCLASSIFIEDS Ellen MorawetzThe Compass, Suite 210 Nichols House,3600 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106Phone: (215) 898-1426 or 898-1427 FAX: 898-1203Classifieds: (215) 898-3632E-mail: rosof@pobox.upenn.edu

UpdateMARCH AT PENN

CONFERENCE CHANGES31 Yiddish in the University; Dan Ben-Amos,folklore & folklife, moderator, Kathryn Hellerstein,Germanic languages and literature, Rakhmiel Peltzand Jeffery Shandler, Center for Judaic Studies &Columbia, Ellen Prince, linguistics, ChavaWeissler, Lehigh, speakers; 5-7 p.m.; Room B-21,Stitler Hall (Jewish Studies Program and Ger-manic Languages and Literature).

MUSIC31 Penn Baroque and Recorder Ensembles;directed by Gwyn Roberts; 8 p.m.; BodekLounge, Houston Hall; free.

SPORTS25 Men’s Tennis vs. Swarthmore; 5 p.m.; Levy/Lott Courts.

Men’s Lacrosse vs. Lafayette; 7 p.m.;Franklin Field.28 Baseball vs. Columbia; noon; Bower Field.

Softball vs. Lehigh; 1:30 p.m.; Warren Field.Women’s Tennis vs. Princeton; 2 p.m.;

Levy/Lott Courts.

Vanpool Riders WantedThe Department of

Transportation andParking is seek-ing additionalriders for itsvanpool #4. Thevanpool origi-nates in Phoenixville, PA, and travels throughValley Forge, King of Prussia and the MainLine. If you are interested in riding, please callStuart Watson at 898-7293 or e-mail towswatson@pobox.

29 Men’s Lightweight Crew vs. Rutgers (LevBrett Cup); Schuylkill River.

Women’s Outdoor Track Penn Invitational;Franklin Field.

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Harvard; noon;Franklin Field.

Softball vs. Delaware State; 1:30 p.m.; War-ren Field.

TALKS

25 The Heritage of Agatharcus: On Perspec-tive and Theatre in Western Painting; DavidSummers, Virginia; 5:30 p.m.; Room B-2,Meyerson Hall (History of Art).26 The Crisis of Experience in a Post-Subjec-tive Age; Martin Jay, UC Berkeley; 4:30 p.m.;Room 329A, 3401 Walnut Street (History).28 The Ottoman Empire: View from the Pe-riphery; Beshara Doumani, history; 2:30 p.m.;Room 421, Williams Hall (Middle East Centerand Turkish Student Association).

Brunelleschi’s First Perspective Demonstra-tion; David Summers, Virginia; 3 p.m.; Room B-2 Meyerson Hall (History of Art).

The University of Pennsylvania Police DepartmentCommunity Crime Report

About the Crime Report: Below are all Crimes Against Persons and Crimes Against Society from thecampus report for March 10 through March 16, 1997 . Also reported were Crimes Against Property ,including 15 thefts (including 3 thefts of auto, 4 thefts from auto, 5 burglaries, 1 theft of bicycles and parts,1 incident of trespassing & loitering). Full crime reports are in this issue of Almanac on the Web(www.upenn.edu/almanac/v43/n27/crimes.html).—Ed.

This summary is prepared by the Division of Public Safety and includes all criminal incidents reported andmade known to the University Police Department between the dates of March 10, 1997 and March 16, 1997 .The University Police acitively patrols from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue and from the Schuylkill Riverto 43rd Street in conjunction with the Philadelphia Police. In this effort to provide you with a thorough andaccurate report on public safety concerns, we hope that your increased awareness will lessen theopportunity for crime. For any concerns or suggestions regarding this report, please call the Division ofPublic Safety at 898-4482.

Crimes Against Persons34th to 38th/Market to Civic Center: Threats & Harassment—103/11/97 1:41 PM Medical School Complainant reports being harassed38th to 41st/Market to Baltimore: Sexual Assaults—1; Robberies (& Attempts)—2Simple Assaults—1; Threats & Harassment—103/09/97 4:16 PM 3925 Walnut St Complainant grabbed on buttocks03/11/97 12:00 PM 41st & Spruce Complainant sprayed with pepper spray by unknown person03/12/97 8:26 PM 3941 Chestnut Unwanted phone calls received03/14/97 1:57 PM 4000 Blk Locust Unknown suspect took property from complainant03/16/97 7:56 PM 3800 Blk Sansom Wallet taken by unknown suspect with gun30th to 34th/Market to University: Simple Assaults—1; Threats & Harassment—103/13/97 9:42 AM Towne Bldg Complainant reports continuous harassment03/14/97 5:56 AM Chemistry Bldg Dispute between workersOutside 30th-43rd/Market-Baltimore: Robberies (& Attempts)—1; Aggravated Assaults —103/13/97 9:22 PM 3315 Market 2 complainants shot in arm by unknown person/s/taken to HUP03/14/97 7:08 PM 4254 Regent Sq Complainant struck on head during robbery by unknown person

Crimes Against Society38th to 41st/Market to Baltimore: Disorderly Conduct—203/10/97 8:30 PM 39th & Chestnut Male acting disorderly/arrest03/15/97 8:47 PM 39th & Sansom Male acting disorderly/arrest

18th District Crimes Against Persons6 Incidents and 1 arrest were reported between March 10, 1997 and March 16, 1997, by the 18thDistruct; covering Schuylkill River to 49th Street, Market Street to Woodland Avenue

03/13/97 1:12PM 3400 Spruce Aggravated Assault03/14/97 10:20AM 4529 Spruce Rape [Arrest Made]03/14/97 1:11PM 310 48th St. Aggravated Assault03/14/97 2:00PM 4040 Locust Robbery03/16/97 7:55PM 3820 Sansom Robbery03/16/97 11:30PM 4502 Chestnut Robbery

Summer Employment OpportunitiesThe Department of Recreation is looking for

lifeguards and operaton workers for their officeand front desk. Students and college-aged chil-dren of faculty and staff who are interested in afun employment oppurtunity in a recreationalsport setting are encouraged to call GloriaChapman at 898-6101 or send e-mail togloria@dining1.dining for more information.31 N-cadherin/beta-catenin complex: a neces-

sary component of early heart development;Kersti K. Linask, UMDNJ, 2 p.m., PhysiologyDept. Conference Room, Richards Building(Pennsylvania Muscle Institute).

Deadlines: The deadline for the May at Penncalendar is April 15. The deadline for the weeklyupdate is the Monday prior to the week of pub-lication.

Both Hutchinson andGimbel Gyms will closeat 7 p.m. on Friday, March28. Both facilities openSaturday, March 29 fromnoon until 6 p.m. Both fa-cilities will be closed onSunday, March 30.

Gyms Closed March 30

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The Teacher Training Program in the Penn Mathematics Dement aims to provide immediate help to beginning graduate stubefore they start teaching, and continuing help to all graduatedents throughout the year. It evolved to its present structure experimentation here and consultation with leaders of similar grams at other schools, and has been functioning in roughlformat described below for the past half dozen years.

We’ve organized ourselves so that the program is administera faculty member chosen by the department chairman, and he iis assisted by the departmental undergraduate and graduate chaand by four senior graduate students who are themselves exceally successful and skilled teachers. These four graduate studethe “make-it-or-break-it” backbone of the program, and we sethem very carefully. Each year we aim to choose two with pexperience in TA training, and two who are new to it.

At the end of August, a week before classes begin, three susive days are devoted to the first stage of the Teacher TraProgram. Follow-up during the academic year involves videotapclassroom visits and group and individual meetings.

First a word about the scope of our program. In the Math Dement, we’ve got about 35-40 TAs. Most teach recitation sectionfreshman and sophomore calculus or problem sessions for jlevel courses, in each case assisting the faculty who are reponsithe lectures and the overall conduct of the course. In addition, TAs teach full calculus courses during the summer. Each yeatraining program involves 10 to 20 graduate students, who are enew to teaching or have been invited back for further training.

It Starts with Pre-Semester TrainingThe pre-semester training program begins on a Wednesday

ing, with a brief introduction by the faculty leaders. The very fthing we stress is attitude. “Love teaching...and let it show,” we“Be genuinely concerned for the well-being and learning of ystudents... and let it show. If you can’t feel this way,” we tell prospective TAs, “then you need to consider seriously whetheare heading down the right career path.”

Then we get down to the nitty-gritty, and turn the program ovthe four senior graduate students, who conduct demonstration ting sessions displaying various styles for leading the recitasections attached to our calculus courses. One style is mostly ling with some student involvement, another has students workigroups together at their desks, yet another has some students cto the blackboard to demonstrate solutions to homework probland finally there is the three-ring circus, with all students atblackboard at the same time, and the TA as ringmaster.

The first time I saw our master TAs conduct this session, I flabergasted at how good they were. While demonstrating the dent styles of teaching, they made everyone else in the aud(including faculty) play the role of an undergraduate, with the graduate students in particular given scripted questions to askminutes into the session, by prearrangement, one of the old hanout an obnoxious yawn. The TA in charge didn’t miss a beatturned to the new graduate students and discussed the probkeeping everybody awake at an early morning recitation secMinutes later, another secret collaborator pulled out a newspapestarted reading. Of course, the TA in charge then launched idiscussion of how to handle such situations. I was secretly promyself for having the good sense to select such wonderful leadethen to stay out of their way.

Just before lunch, the graduate students watch a short videoactual class taught by an older and experienced graduate studewe follow this with an explicit discussion of all the attitudes atechniques worth emulating.

During lunch break, the participants are given a list of simpleculus problems to look over, which they will be asked to prese

Talk About Teaching is a series conducted by the College of Arts aa recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teach

afternoon sessions.Then we divide the trainees into four small groups, each to b

by one of the senior graduate students. In these groups, the stupresent solutions to the problems given to them at lunchtime,everyone else in the room plays the role of an undergraduate, puthe student playing the role of teacher to explain everything as clas possible. The involved faculty rotate among these rooms, conting to the process. At the end of this session, the new students area list of more complicated calculus problems to take home and prefor the next day.

The morning of the second day resembles the afternoon of theonly this time the participants present solutions to the more substproblems which they have prepared overnight. Afterwards, we disthe good and the bad of what we’ve heard and seen. The group letry to emphasize that there are a number of routes to good teachinthat it is possible to be a good teacher while being true to yourpersonality—as opposed to mimicking your favorite professor. also stress: be prepared! It is the height of arrogance, we think asay, to bring students into class as a captive audience and nthoroughly prepared.

After lunch, the participants are divided into two groups, eachby two senior graduate students, and they discuss a whole ranproblems associated with teaching, some ordinary—how to struthe recitation hour, how to keep effective records of class performahow to deal with student complaints; and some quite delicate—hoobtain help for students in emotional distress, how to deal harrassment, how to interact effectively with the professor in charthe course, and so on. Prepared skits by the master TAs encodiscussion. Again the involved faculty rotate between the two gro

The third day is devoted entirely to an introduction to Maple,numerical and symbolic calculating program which is currently bedded in our calculus instruction.

And the Follow-up Is...(1) Classroom visitation of all TAs by faculty members. We now

this at the beginning of October and aim to finish before Fall Breakcalculus professors visit the TAs teaching for them, and try to sit dwith them the same day for one-on-one discussion. Our goal is to problems early and help our TAs finish the semester on a positiveand with a positive self-image.

(2) A lunch meeting with all the new graduate student teachers imiddle of the first semester, to hear problems and share advicegroup setting.

(3) Videotaping of the TAs in the classroom. Tapes becomeproperty of the student teacher, who is free to view them alone oradvisors of his or her choice. TAs may be taped again to see the chin their performance.

I can’t say enough good things about videotaping! Several yearI arranged to videotape a particular student on both a Tuesday aimmediately following Thursday. After the videotaping on Tuesdwe both watched the entire tape and discussed it in exquisite detif we were coaching a public performance. We stopped the tape times for extended discussion of content, style, teacher-student action, language, voice, body motion, posture, and so on. Thereplenty of room for improvement. Then we did it again on Thursdaywatched the tape a second time. I will not say much about the chabecause they cannot be believed except by doing this experyourself. But the result of Thursday was so good that we nowexcerpts from this second tape as a demonstration video during otraining.

A parting message: Come visit us during our next TA training sion, Wednesday-Friday, August 27-29, 1997. You can contact me-mail—gluck@math.upenn.edu—and I’ll give you the details. Alsoif you run a TA training program in your own department, I’d lovehear about it, perhaps visit while it’s going on, and steal any ideas

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ACADEMIC CALENDARAdvanced Registration for fall and

summer classes. Through April 6.25 Spring Term Classes End.28 Reading Days. Through April 30.

CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES3 Mirror Game; see On Stage. Re-peated April 4.4 Wendel the Sheep Herder; StimulusChildren’s Theater Production about ayoung man trying to answer the child-hood question, “What do you want to bewhen you grow up?”; 7 p.m.; HoustonHall Auditorium; $5/adults, $2/kids; in-formation/tickets: 222-2105. RepeatedApril 5, 2 & 7 p.m.; April 6, 2 p.m.5 Chewing and Spitting; kids ages 8-12 learn about the cultural significanceof chewing betel leaf, areca nut and limpaste, a tradition of Southeast Asianpeople; in conjunction with the Creatingthe Quid exhibit; 10 a.m.-noon; Univer-sity Museum; $5/materials fee; registra-tion: 898-4016.

EXHIBITSAdmission donations & hours

Arthur Ross Gallery, Fisher FineArts Library: free, Tues.-Fri., 10 a.m.-5p.m., Sat. & Sun., 12-5 p.m.

Burrison Gallery, Faculty Club:free, Mon.-Fri., 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Esther Klein Gallery, 3600 Market:free, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Institute of Contemporary Art: $3,$1/students, artists, seniors, free/mem-bers, children under 12, with PennCardand on Sundays 10 a.m.-noon; Thurs.,10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Wed.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5p.m.; closed: Mon. & Tues.

Meyerson Hall Galleries: free,Mon.-Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Morris Arboretum: $4, $3/seniors,$2/students, free/with PennCard, chil-dren under 6; Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.;Sat. & Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

University Museum: $5, $2.50/se-niors and students with ID, free/mem-bers, with PennCard, children under 6;Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sunday,1-5 p.m.; closed Mon. and holidays.

Upcoming1 The Art of Father and Son; worksby Sam Yankell, research professor ofperiodontics, and his son, Stuart, whostudied at GSFA and the PennsylvaniaAcademy of Fine Arts; reception, 4:30-6:30 p.m.; Burrison Art Gallery, FacultyClub. Through May 1.5 Creating the Quid: Betel ChewingParaphrenalia from Asia and the Pa-cific; display of traditional and contem-porary items used in this essential part

Suite 211 Nichols House, 3600 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224

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Unless otherwise noted all events aopen to the general public as well as members of the University. For buildinglocations, call 898-5000 between 9 a.mand 5 p.m. Listing of a phone numbenormally means tickets, reservations oregistration required.

This April calendar is a pull-out forposting. Almanac carries an Update withadditions, changes and cancellations received by Monday noon prior to theweek of publication. Members of the University may send notices for the Update orMay at Penn calendar.

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of social interactions from East Africathe Western Pacific; see also Children’sActivities; Main Entrance, UniversityMuseum. Through December.14 MFA Thesis Show; works by 1997Master of Fine Arts candidates KenChon, Katerina Gravanis, StefanKlinger, Mimi Kim, Saeri Kiritani,Jewyo Rhii, Rieko Seto, Nancy ShahaChris White; reception, April 18, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Meyerson Hall Galleries.Through April 23.26 The Afghan Folio; Luke Powell’sphotographs of landscapes, architectand people of Afghanistan, taken be-tween 1974 and 1978, just prior to thecountry’s civil war and subsequent Soviet occupation; First floor, Sharpe Galery, University Museum. Through Au-gust 23.

NowThree Video Installations by

Maureen Connor, Tony Oursler andWinifred Lutz; ICA. Through April 13.

Works of Sarah Steele; PennWomen’s Center. Through April 17.

Mongolia Observed: Photographsby Robert McCracken Peck; SharpeGallery, University Museum. ThroughApril 20.

Treasures of Asian Art: Master-pieces from the Mr. and Mrs. John D.Rockefeller 3rd Collection of the AsiaSociety; Arthur Ross Gallery. ThroughApril 20.

Fort Mose: Colonial America’sBlack Fortress of Freedom; DietrichGallery, University Museum. ThroughApril 27.

Watercolors: Medicinal Plants ofShakespeare; Morris Arboretum.Through June 1997.

Time and Rulers at Tikal: Architetural Sculpture of the Maya; UniversityMuseum. Through Fall 1997.

OngoingAncient Greek World; Living in

Balance: Universe of the Hopi, Zuni,Navajo and Apache; Ancient Mesopomia: Royal Tombs of Ur; The EgyptiaMummy: Secrets and Science; RavenJourney: World of Alaska’s Native Peple; Buddhism: History and Diversity a Great Tradition; University Museum.

Healing Plants: Medicine AcrossTime and Cultures; Morris Arboretum.

University Museum ToursMeet at the main entrance; 1:30 p.m.free with admission donation.6 Miraculous Journey: The SpreadBuddhism.19 Africa’s Diversity.20 Highlights of the Collections.26 Life Along the Nile.27 Chinese Culture and the Collectio

FILMS2 Ososhiki/The Funeral (Itami Juzo,1989); Japanese with English subtitlewith lecture, Critiques of ContemporarJapan, Ayako Kano, Japanese studiesp.m.; Room 23, Moore School (Centefor East Asian Studies).23 Tora! Tora! Tora! (Richard Flei-scher, 1970); in English; with lecture,Foreign Views of Japanese Imperialisby Hilary Conroy, Japanese studiess;p.m.; Room 23, Moore School (Centefor East Asian Studies).30 Sixth Annual Philadelphia Festivaof World Cinema; films and eventsthroughout Philadelphia, sponsored International House’s Neighborhood FilVideo Project; info/tickets/schedules: 800-WOW-PFWC or www.liberty-net.org/~ihouse. Through May 11.

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Music Department ConcertsFree performances at 8 p.m.; CathedraChurch of the Saviour, 38th & ChestnuSts. (unless noted).4 University Choir; J.S. Bach’s BWV80, Poulenc’s Chansons françaises andEnglish madrigals.5 University Wind Ensemble and YaUniversity Concert Band; Villa-Lobos’sFantasy in Three Movements, PaulHart’s Cartoon, and Penn music professor Jay Reise’s Tinicum Rhythms.6 Penn Composers Guild; CurtisInstitute of Music students perform newworks by Penn graduate students; CurInstitute, 1726 Locust St.11 Ancient Voices; honoring the 500thanniversary of the death of composerJohannes Ockeghem.17 University Symphony Orchestraand Early Music at Penn; program ofancient and modern instrumental musiand dance; Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center.25 University Choral Society; perfor-mance of Missa Solemnis in A flat, inhonor of Schubert’s 200th birthday.

Folklife Center ConcertsWorld music performances at Interna-tional House; $15, $13/students and sniors, $10/I-House members; tickets:Upstages, 893-1145; information: Folklife Center, 895-6537.20 La Bottine Souriante; renownedQuebec traditional group plays energeAcadian hoedown music and big-bandsounds; 7 p.m.26 Saied Shanbehzadeh TraditionalBushehri Music Ensemble; southern Ira-nian group meshes the sounds of Per-sian, Arab, African and Indian tradi-tional music, influenced by Sufism, toproduce rhythmic music and trance-in-ducing dances; 8 p.m.

Curtis Organ ConcertsRecitals at Irvine Auditorium; 12:05 p.m2 Lorenz Maycher, New York City.9 Justin Hartz, Julliard.16 Jason Frederick, WestminsterCollege Choir.23 Louis Perazza, St. Luke & theEpiphany Church, Philadelphia.30 Anne Conneghen, Temple Univers

ON STAGEMystery Repeats Itself; final shows

of Mask and Wig Club’s 109th annualproduction; ; April 3: clubhouse show;bar opens: 7 p.m., show: 8 p.m., $20 &$25; April 4: dinner show/class night;cocktails: 6:30 p.m., dinner: 7:30 p.m.,show: 8:30 p.m., $50; Mask & Wig CluHouse, 310 S. Quince Street; tickets/information: 898-6791.10 Constance DeJong and TracyLeipold; performance with artists whocollaborate with Tony Oursler (see Ex-hibits); 6 p.m.; Institute of Contempo-rary Art; free with admission donation(see Exhibits).

Annenberg CenterTickets/info: 898-6791 (unless noted).3 Mirror Game; Green Thumb The-atre for Young People production ex-plores the patterns of abusive relation-ships in a group of teenagers; recom-mended for grades 9-12; 10 a.m. and12:30 p.m.; Zellerbach Theatre; $8;group sales: 898-6683. Repeated April 4.4 Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth;Penn Players presents Tom Stoppard’sspoof on classic Shakespeare; 8 p.m.;Harold Prince Theatre; $5. RepeatedApril 5, 10-12; benefit performance forSay Yes, April 6, 2 p.m.7 Previewers; Philadelphia FestivalTheatre for New Plays’ monthly readingof a new work; 7 p.m.; free.10 Paul Taylor Dance Company; threeworks by the modern choreographer:Brandenburgs, elegant dancing set tomusic by Bach; Offenbach Overtures, aballetic spoof set to music by 19th C.French operetta composer JacquesOffenbach; and in Taylor’s latest work,Eventide, couples perform romantic du-ets to music by Ralph Vaughn WilliamsDance Celebration Series; 7 p.m.;Zellerbach Theatre; $28/evenings, $26/matinees, $12/students. Repeated April11, 8 p.m.; April 12, 2 & 8 p.m.15 Megatron; powerful dancing cho-reographed by Megan Brazil; NextMoveFestival ’97 Series; 8 p.m.; HaroldPrince Theatre. Repeated April 16 & 17.16 The Nightclub; performance byNeville Tranter’s Stuffed Puppet Theatrabout the vanishing world of vaudeville;8 p.m.; Annenberg School Theatre. Re-peated April 18 & 19.

SPECIAL EVENTS4 Reception for Rev. AndrewBarasada; welcoming the ChristianAssociation’s new associate minister; 4p.m.; Christian Association Lobby (CA).

International Women’s Celebra-tion; 5- 7 p.m.; Women’s Center (PWC)5 Celebration of Culture; 12-5 p.m.;College Green (United Minorities Coun-cil, Social Planning & Events Commit-tee, Greenfield Intercultural Center).8 Alice Paul Awards Breakfast; 8a.m.; Faculty Club (PWC).12 Philadelphia Antiques Show; detailson reverse; 103rd Engineers Armory, 33r& Market Sts. Through April 16.16 Seafood Buffet; 5:30-8 p.m.; Fac-ulty Club; info/reservations: 898-4618.17 Spring Crafts Fair; 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;Locust Walk (SPEC). Through April 18.18 Spring Fling; 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; TheQuad (SPEC). Through April 19.

In The Spirit; Volunteer GuidesBenefit Party for Museum educationalprograms; 6-8 p.m.; Upper EgyptianGallery, University Museum; $20.19 Museum Bazaar: Dig for Trea-sures; Museum’s Women’s Commit-tee’s bazaar featuring donated itemsincluding books, works of art and gifts;10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Univ. Museum.

Philly Fest: An Exploration of Phil-adelphia’s Cultural Heritage; WorldCulture Day with arts and crafts, story-

telling and dance traditions of local African-American, Hispanic, Indian, Italianand Asian communities; 12-4 p.m.; University Museum; free with admissiondonation: see Exhibits.

Contemporary Art...Heaven orHell?; Institute of Contemporary Art an-nual benefit gala; dinner, 7 p.m.; danceparty, 9 p.m.; ICA; dinner & dance:$250/couple, $175/person; dance partyonly: $35/members, $50/non-membersinformation: 898-7108.20 Big Tree Celebration; Earth Day1997 features tree-centered activities,tree-planting ceremony and entertain-ment by the Philadelphia Revels; 1-4p.m.; Morris Arboretum; free with ad-mission: see Exhibits.22 Secretaries’ Day Luncheons; 11:30a.m.-1 p.m.; Faculty Club; info: 898-461824 Take Our Daughters to Work Day;for girls, ages 9-15 years old, and theirsponsors (required); panel presentationand breakfast sponsored by Human Resources, 9-11 a.m., Rm. B-1, MeyersonHall; info: kraut@pobox.upenn.edu.25 Hey Day Parade; 3 p.m.; LocustWalk (Junior Class Board).

SPORTSThere is no admission charge for springspring sports events.Locations: Baseball, Bower Field; CrewSchuylkill River; Lacrosse and OutdoorTrack, Franklin Field; Softball, WarrenField; Tennis, Lott & Levy Courts.1 Baseball vs. Villanova, 3 p.m.;W. Lacrosse vs. West Chester, 7 p.m.2 Softball vs. Drexel, 2:30 p.m. (2 games)4 W. Lacrosse vs. Dartmouth, 7 p.m.;M. Tennis vs. Army, 2 p.m.5 vs. Dartmouth: Baseball, noon (2);M. Lacrosse, 1 p.m.; M. Ltwt. Crew vs.Cornell/Harvard; vs. Cornell: Softball,1 p.m. (2); M. Tennis, noon.

Women’s Synchronized Swim TeaShow; 1 p.m.; Gimbel Gym.6 Baseball vs. Harvard, noon (2);Softball vs. Columbia, 1 p.m. (2); W. &M. Outdoor Track, Penn Invitational.

9 vs. La Salle: Baseball, 3 p.m.,Softball, 3 p.m. (2); W. Lacrosse vs.Princeton, 7 p.m.11 W. Tennis vs. Harvard, 2 p.m.12 Softball vs. Delaware, 1 p.m. (2);W. Tennis vs. Dartmouth, noon; OutdoorTrack: W. vs. Princeton/Yale, M. vs.Princeton.17 W. Lacrosse vs. Rutgers, 7 p.m.18 Men’s Tennis vs. Brown, 2 p.m.19 W. Crew vs. Cornell/Rutgers; Ltwt.Crew vs. Princeton; Softball vs. Brown,1 p.m. (2); M. Tennis vs. Yale, noon.20 M. Ltwt. Crew vs. Georgetown;vs. Yale: W. Lacrosse, 1 p.m., Softball,1 p.m. (2).22 Baseball vs. Lehigh, 3:30 p.m.;Penn Relays, through April 26.26 Baseball vs. Princeton, noon (2;also on April 27); W. Tennis vs. Colum-bia, noon.27 M. Lacrosse vs. Yale, 1 p.m.30 M. Lacrosse vs. Princeton, 7 p.m.

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FITNESS/LEARNINGIce Skating; public skating, figure

skating sessions and hockey sessions;Class of 1923 Ice Rink; admission $5,$4.50 with PennCard; info: 898-1923.

Jazzercise; 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Mon.,Tues., Thurs.; Philadelphia ChildGuidance Ctr.; first class free; $3.50/clas$2.50/students; info: Carolyn Hamilton,662-3293 (days), 446-1983 (evenings).8 Annual Housing Fair; with propertyowners, managers, and repre-sentativesfrom realty companies, tenants’ rightsgroups, utilities and other companies; 11a.m.-2 p.m.; Locust Walk (Off-CampusLiving). Rain dates: April 9 or 10.

Christian Association1 Muslim Student Association DailyPrayers; 1-5 p.m.; Chapel. Meets Mon-days, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays.2 Quaker Meetin’ & Eatin’; noon;Auditorium. Meets Wednesdays.

Buddhist Meditation for WesternerChapel. Wednesdays, 1 p.m.; Fridays, noo3 Early Morning Prayers; 8 a.m.;Conference Room. Meets Thursdays.

Sister Circle; noon; ConferenceRoom. Meets Thursdays.

College of General StudiesSpecial programs; courses meet weekly(unless noted); registration: 898-6479.2 Personal Financial Planning; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; $150 (incl. text). Through May 7.

Public Relations: Mastering theFundamentals; Fund-Raising CertificateProgram elective; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; $110.Through April 16.3 The Personal Essay; 10 a.m.-noon;$120. Through May 8 (omit April 17).

Architectural Literacy: A View of thePast and Present; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; $80.Through April 24.

Blues in the Night; 6:30-8:30 p.m.;$75. Through April 24.

Writing for the Children’s Market;6:30-8:30 p.m.; $150. Through May 22.5 Stewardship: This Gift and the NextFRCP; 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; $120, $110FRCP. Continues April 12.

Managing Up, Managing Down:Developing Working Partnerships;FRCP elective; 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; $130.Continues April 12.

Decision Making Skills; FRCPelective; 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; $75.

Creative Writing: The Art andProcess; 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; $85.

Look Good, Sound Great, Act SmarA Practical Guide for BusinessProfessionals; FRCP elective; 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; $120.

Writing and Selling Travel Stories; 9:30a.m.-4:30 p.m.; $90. Repeated April 12.

Outdoor Container Gardening; 10a.m.-noon; $25.

Riches and Ritual: Mesopotamia anthe Royal Cemetery at Ur; 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; $45. Museum tour: April 12.

The Musical World of Cole Porter;10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; $45.7 Improving Your Speech and Voice;FRCP elective; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; $130.Continues April 9, 14 & 16.

Video Production for Non-ProfitOrganizations; FRCP elective; 6:30-9p.m.; $110. Continues April 14.10 Cultivating Corporations andFoundations; FRCP; 6:30-9 p.m.; $135,$125/FRCP. Through April 24.12 Power Speaking; FRCP elective;9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; $120.16 Interior Design: AntiquesSymposium; 6:30-8:30 p.m.; $135 (incl.Philadelphia Museum of Art entrance feeThrough May 14 (omit May 7).17 The Internet in Fund Raising: AnIntroduction; FRCP; 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.;$135, $125/FRCP.19 The Garden in Summer: Bold Colorin Mixed Borders; 10 a.m.-noon; $25.

Michelangelo and Rodin: GeniusRediscovered; includes tour of RodinMuseum (May 17) and PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art (May 24); 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; $90 (no discounts). Continuesweekly May 3-24.24 Fiction Writing Workshop; 6:30-9p.m.; $150. Through May 22.

Housing SeminarsSponsored by the Office of the TreasureRoom 720, Franklin Building; info/registration: 898-7256.2 Home Buying Session; with EasternMortgage Services; noon and 1 p.m. WithSovereign Bank, April 16.9 One-on-One Counseling Sessions;with Mellon Bank; hourly appointmentsbetween 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.25 Credit Seminar; noon and 1 p.m.

Morris ArboretumCall 247-5777 for information, class timeand registration: 247-5777.

Guided Walking Tours; Saturdaysand Sundays; 2 p.m.; admission and hosee Exhibits.5 Rose Pruning Demonstration; withJudy McKeon and members of thePhiladelphia Rose Society; 1-3 p.m.

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Newman Center2 Augustine’s City of God; readingdiscussion group; 7:30-8:30 p.m.;Newman Center. Weekly through April 23 Bible Study: The Gospel of Mark;12:30-1:30 p.m.; Newman Center. Meetsweekly through May 1.7 Bible Study: Together with the Wo8-9:15 p.m.; 4th floor lounge, High RisNorth. Continues on April 10.

Small Business DevelopmentWharton SBDC courses meet weekly,6:30-9 p.m. and cost $185 (unless notinfo/registration: 898-4861.2 Business Basics Seminar; $50.Through April 23.

When It’s “All in the Family”:Managing a Family-Owned Business.Through April 16.5 Management Team Building; 9 a.m.1 p.m.; Continues April 12.7 Selling Skills for the EntrepreneurThrough April 21.8 Marketing: A Call to Action.Through April 22.24 Tactics for Increasing Profitability.Through May 8.29 Financial Management for the SmFirm; $205. Through May 20.

CONFERENCES1 Rethinking Adam Smith; SteinbergSymposium and Economics Day EvenAdam Smith Reading Project, 6 p.m.,Faculty Club; April 2: Adam Smith: Pasand Present, moderator: Lawrence Kleineconomics, speakers: Douglass NorthWashington University and Jeffrey SacHarvard, 2-4 p.m. and The Legacy ofAdam Smith, John Kenneth Galbraith,Harvard, 4:30-5:30 p.m.; Rainey Auditrium, University Museum; information:www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/steinberwelcome.html (SAS External Affairs).Through April 2.4 Imagination: A Common Ground fthe Theory & Practice of Architecture;PhD Program in Architecture; JenniferBloomer, University of Iowa, ChristineBoyer, Princeton, Alberto Pérez-GómeMcGill, Donald Kunze, Penn State; moinfo: www.upenn.edu/gsfa/arch/ (FineArts). Through April 5.11 Pilgrimage, Migration and Trade;15th annual Maya Weekend; April 11:introductory lecture, 6:30 p.m. andreception, 7:30 p.m.; Penn Tower HoteApril 12: registration, 8 a.m.; welcome,a.m.; lectures (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. &5:30 p.m.), glyph workshops (9:30 a.m12:30 p.m. & 2-5:30 p.m.), reception (5p.m.), and dinner (7 p.m.); April 13:lectures (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 2-3:2p.m.), glyph workshops (9:30 a.m.-12:p.m.), closing reception (3:20 p.m.);University Museum; $125, $100/memb& seniors, $55/full-time students; $55/dinner; $10/box lunch; info/registration898-4890 (Museum). Through April 13.18 Biological Basis of Behavior:Student Research Symposium; scientificposter session, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; orapresentations, 1:30-5:30 p.m.; Penn THotel; register by March 31:reid@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (BBB).19 12th Annual Symposium on LowVision; 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Scheie Eye Insti(Scheie Eye Institute).24 Creation and the Theory of Evo-lution; The Difference of Being HumanBiological Evolution and Cultural Evo-lution; Francisco Ayala, UC-Irvine; 4p.m.; Human Life: Creation versus Evo-lution? Wolfhart Pannenberg, Univ. ofMunich; Boardman Lecture, 8 p.m.; SoAmerica Room, Int’l House (ReligiousStudies).30 The Effects of Lead on Children;mod-erator: Donald Schwarz, CHOP;speakers: Peter Bloch, radiological phand Institute for Environmental StudiesCarla Campbell, CHOP; Herbert Needman, Pitt; 4:30-6:30 p.m.; Rm. B-6, StiHall; registration required: 573-3164 (Ifor Environmental Studies).

TALKS1 Physiological and Structural Studiof Synaptic Vesicle Cycling; VincentPieribone, Rockefeller University; 4 p.mPhysiology Conference Room, 4th FloRichards Bldg. (Physiology).

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Regulation of B Cell Activation byCD21; Michael Carroll, Harvard; 4 p.m.Grossman Auditorium, Wistar Institute(Wistar).

Building and Managing a ProviderBased Behavioral Health Outcomes Pgram; Howard Waxman, Albert EinsteiHealth Care Network; 4:30-6 p.m.;Colonial Penn Center Auditorium(Leonard Davis Institute of HealthEconomics).

Is There Tolerance in the Bible?;Nahum Sarna, Brandeis; 5 p.m.; 285,McNeil Bldg.; (Jewish Studies ProgramAsian and Middle Eastern Studies; andReligious Studies).3 Sesostris III: Image of a Pharaoh;Josef Wegner, Egyptian Section, Univesity Museum; 12:30 p.m.; Classroom 2Museum; free with admission donationsee Exhibits (Museum).

The Biblical Cult: An UntappedSource of Israel’s Ethical Values; JacobMilgrom, UC-Berkeley; 2-3:30 p.m.;Room 305, Houston Hall (Jewish Stud

The Cities of East Asia; Gary Hack,dean, Graduate School of Fine Arts; 4:p.m.; Room 111, Williams Hall (Centerfor East Asian Studies).

Investigations into the Particular;John Patkau, Patkau Architects; 6 p.mMeyerson Hall (Grad School of Fine Arts)

Targeting and Retention of Golgi Mebrane Proteins; Carolyn Machamer, JohnsHopkins; 12:15-1:30 p.m.; Class of ’62, JMorgan Bldg. (Cell & Molecular BiologyGraduate Group).

Women’s Body Images and TheirObsession with Slimness; Demie Kurz,women’s studies; in conjunction with Conexhibit; 6 p.m.; Institute of ContemporaryArt; free with admission donation: seeExhibits (ICA).4 Fashionable CommoditiesConstructing Body Surfaces inSoutheastern Nigeria with Things of thMarketplace; Misty Bastian, Franklin anMarshall; noon; Room 421, Williams H(African Studies).

Déjeuner causérie; topic: TBA;noon-1:30 p.m.; Room 405, LauderFischer Hall (French Institute).

Volvo and the Environment:Experience and Visions; Urban Wass, ABVolvo, Sweden; 12:15-1:45 p.m.; Room109, SH-DH (Environmental Studies).

Indigenous Social Movements,Aesthetics, and Health Networks inEcuador; Norman Whitten, University oIllinois—Urbana/Champaign; 4 p.m.;Smith-Penniman Room, Houston Hall(Latin American Cultures Program).

Social and Economic Changes inHong Kong After July 1, 1997: ImpactsWomen and Families; Irene Wong, sociawork; 5-7 p.m.; Penn Women’s Center(Women’s Center).

Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic;Judith Berman, Hunter College; 3-5 p.mRich Seminar Room, Jaffe Bldg. (ArtHistory).7 Biological Activities of Rac/Cdc42regulated p21-activated Kinases (PAKGary Bokoch, Scripps Research Institunoon; Pharmacology Conf. Room, M-1John Morgan Bldg. (Pharmacology).

Atomic-Scale Mechanisms of EtchReactions of Metal Surfaces; Eric AltmanYale; 3:30 p.m.; Room 337, Towne Bld(Chemical Engineering).

Routes of Funding, Roots of TrustNorthern NGOs, Southern NGOs and Rise of Direct Funding in Bangladesh;David Lewis, London School ofEconomics and Crisis, What Crisis?:Challenges and Transitions of NGOs inLatin America, Tony Bebbington,University of Colorado; 3-5 p.m.; Room103-5, Williams Hall (South AsiaRegional Studies).

Ethics and Embryos: InterpretingHistorically the Rock Hertig Study ofEarly Conceptuses 1938-1950; MargaretMarsh, Temple; 4 p.m.; Suite 500, 344Market St. (History and Sociology ofScience).

Beirut: The Reconstruction of theCentral District and the Revival of Leb-anon; Angus Gavin, Solidere; 4:30 p.mRoom B-21, Stiteler Hall (LebaneseStudent Ass’n & Middle East Center).

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Roles of the Septin Proteins inCytokinesis and Other Aspects of CellSurface Organization; John Pringle, UN12:15-1:30 p.m.; Hirst Aud., Dulles BldHUP (CAMB Graduate Group).

The East Side Story: East Africa aHuman Origins; Yves Coppens, Collegof France, Paris; 6 p.m.; UniversityMuseum (French Institute; Museum).

Sacred Language, ProfaneLanguage: Print Culture and Nationaliin Egypt; Nilofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins;4:30 p.m.; West Lounge, Room 421,Williams Hall (Middle East Center).9 New Labors, New Lives: CapitalisPractice and Critique in Yucatan, MexChristine Kray, anthropology; noon; BoRoom, Houston Hall (Latin AmericanCultures Program).

United States-Korean Relations; KunWoo Park, Ambassador from the Repuof Korea to the U.S. and James LaneyU.S. Ambassador to the Republic ofKorea; 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Room 351,Steinberg/Dietrich Hall (Korea EconomInstitute & Federation of KoreanIndustries).

Knowing About Knowing About thBrain; Floyd E. Bloom, Scripps ReseaInstitute; SAS Dean’s Forum; 4 p.m.;Rainey Aud., Museum (SAS ExternalAffairs).

Duality, Spacetime, and QuantumMechanics; Edward Witten, Institute forAdvanced Study; Henry Primakofflecture; 4 p.m.; Room A-1, DRL (Phys& Astronomy).

Role of CD28 at CTLA4 PathwayT-cell Activation; Carl June, NavalMedical Research Institute; 4 p.m.;Grossman Aud., Wistar Institute (Wista

The Need for a Unity Center; publicdiscussion; 7:30 p.m.; ChristianAssociation Auditorium (CA; GlobalVillage; PACE).10 Chopin and ‘la note bleue’: AnInterpretation of the Prelude, op. 45; JeanJacques Eigeldinger, l’Université deGenève; 5 p.m.; Room 208, Music Bld(French Institute).

Leslie Gill: Recent Work; Leslie GillLeslie Gill Architects; 6 p.m.; MeyersoHall (Graduate School of Fine Arts).

Establishing Polarity in the C.elegans Embryo: A Part of the Story;Kenneth Kemphues, Cornell; 12:15-1:p.m.; Class of ’62, John Morgan Bldg.(Cell & Developmental Biology).

Men, Women, Mothers, Food; MaryGordon, author; Judy Berkowitz endowlecture; 4:30 p.m.; Room 110, AnnenbSchool (Women’s Studies).11 Adenylate Cyclase: Genes andRegulation; Jacques Hanoune, biochemistry; noon-1 p.m.; Rm. 427, LevyResearch Bldg. (Biochem./Dental Sch

Feasibility of Aquaculture at thePhiladelphia Navy Yard: A ProgressReport; Leon Weiss, vet school; 12:15-1:45 p.m.; Rm. 109, Steinberg-DietrichHall (Environmental Studies).

Let Your Mouse Do the Walking :Behind the Scenes in the Web LibraryMicheline Nilsen and Alan Morrison, FArts Library; 3-5 p.m.; Rich SeminarRoom, Jaffe Building (Art History).

Queer Proust; Elizabeth LadensonUniversity of Virginia; 3-4 p.m.; CherpaLounge, Williams Hall (French Institute

Aqueous Humor Formation: X-RaMicroanalysis Studies of Ciliary EpitheCell Composition; Anthony Macknight,University of Otago, New Zealand; 11a.m.; Physiology Conference Room,Richards Bldg. (Physiology).

Musical Salons and Gender inChopin; Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger,German, & Jeffrey Kallberg, music; 5p.m.; Rm. 208, Music Bldg. (French In12 Annual Alumni Meeting and XXFrancis Heed Adler Lecture; Carl KupferNational Eye Institute; Scheie EyeInstitute (Scheie Eye Institute).14 PET Imaging Studies in AnimalModels of Stress, Aging and SubstancAbuse; Robert Mach, Bowman GraySchool of Medicine; noon; Room M-10John Morgan Bldg. (Phamacology).

NGOs and Poverty Alleviation:Credit Programs versus PoliticalEmpowerment; Syed Hashemi, TheGrameen Bank; 3-5 p.m.; Rm. 103-5,Williams Hall (SARS).

Non-Hydrolytic Sol-gel of Alumina;Gideon Grader, Israel Institute of Technology; 3:30 p.m.; Room 337, TowneBldg. (Chemical Engineering).

The History of the History of ScienAmerica, 1940-1970; Margaret RossitCornell; 4 p.m.; Suite 500, 3440 Ma(H & SS).

The Mosque and the Modern WoThe Role of Turkey as an Image of Monity; Renata Holod, history of art; 5 p.mRoom 113, Jaffe Bldg. (Middle EastCenter & Turkish Student Association)

Inequality Does Matter: LatinAmerica and East Asia; Nancy Birdsall,Inter-American Development Bank; 4:6 p.m.; Room 351, Steinberg/Dietrich (Economics;�Public Policy & Mgmt.).15 Language Reform in China; VictorMair, Asian and Middle Eastern studiep.m.; Faculty Club (Women’s Club).

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Kingship by Pagoda: The GoldenLight Sutra in Pictures; Mimi Yieng-pruksawan, Yale; 4:30 p.m.; Room 421,Williams Hall (Ctr. for East Asian Studies).

Penn Authors and Autobiographies:Lorene Cary; Lorene Cary, English; 6-8p.m.; $10, free/Penn ID; PennimanLibrary, Bennett Hall; (SAS).17 TBA; Alice Rivlin, Vice Chair, Boardof Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys-tem; 4:30-6 p.m.; Room 351, Steinberg-Dietrich Hall (Public Policy & Mgmt.).

Politics and Culture in Post-ColonialAlgeria; Lucette Valensi, Ecole desHautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; 4:30-6:30 p.m.; Ethnohistory Lecture; HistoryLounge, 3401 Walnut (History).

Poetry in the Face of the Holocaust:Celan, Sutzkever, and Others; JohnFelstiner, Stanford; 5 p.m.; Bowl Room,Houston Hall; (Jewish Studies; German;English; Asian & Middle Eastern Studies).

Developing a Decision-SupportSystem for Preventing Housing Aban-donment in NYC; Dennis Culhane, socialwork; Urban Research Seminar; 7-9 p.m.;Room 306, Furness Bldg. (Urban Studies).

Mechanisms of Diversification in theC. Elegans Mesoderm; Andy Fire, Car-negie Institute; 12:15-1:30 p.m.; Class of’62, John Morgan Bldg. (Cell &Molecular Biology Graduate Group).

Gene Therapy with Adnovirus forHead & Neck Tumors; Jean Bourhis,L’Institut Gustave Roussy; noon; locationinfo: 573-3550 (French Institute).18 Localizing the Global with ‘OrdinaryCosmopolitans’: Fashion and Femininityin Dakar; Hadita Mustafa, Harvard; noon;Rm. 421, Williams Hall (African Studies).

Saving the Environment: PracticalSolutions to Environmental Problems;James Spotila, Drexel; 12:15-1:45 p.m.;Room 109, Steinberg-Dietrich Hall(Institute for Environmental Studies).

The Soul’s Journey to Heaven; AncaBratu-Minott, art history; 3-5 p.m.; RichSeminar Room, Jaffe Bldg. (Art History).

Combined Modality Treatment; JeanBourhis, L’Institut Gustave Roussy; noon;location info: 573-3550 (French Institute).21 Molecular Studies of the CAG-Polyglutamine Repeat Disease, Machado-Joseph Disease; Hank Paulson, pharma-cology and neurology; noon; Room M100,John Morgan Bldg. (Pharmacology).

Expatriate NGO Culture in SriLanka; R. L. Stirrat, University of Sussexand NGO, Donors, Money Lenders andEmpowerment of Women: Whose Agenda?Jude Fernando, South Asia RegionalStudies; 3-5 p.m.; Rm. 103-5, WilliamsHall (SARS).

Engineering Biomolecular Recog-nition; K. Dane Wittrup, University ofIllinois; 3:30 p.m.; Room 337, TowneBldg. (Chemical Engineering).21 Molecular Studies of the CAG-polyglutamine Repeat Disease, Machado-Joseph Disease; Hank Paulson, pharma-cology and neurology; noon; Room M-100, John Morgan Bldg. (Pharmacology).

Cloning Inducers of HematopoieticStem Cells; Leonard Zon, Children’sHospital, Boston; 4 p.m.; GrossmanAuditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar).23 The Impact of Temporary LaborMigration on Educational Outcomes inMexico; William Kandel, populationstudies; noon; Bowl Room, Houston Hall(Latin American Cultures Program).24 Signal Transduction by Integrins:How Cell Adhesions Talk to the Nucleus;Carol Otey, UVA; 12:15-1:30 p.m.; Classof ‘62, John Morgan Bldg. (Cell &Developmental Biology).

Path Dependency and NationalIdentity: Three Inner Asian Examples fromChina; Dru Gladney, University of Hawaiiat Manoa; 4:30 p.m.; Woody SeminarRoom, Van Pelt Library (Center for EastAsian Studies).

Beginning of Settled Village Life inEastern Anatolia; Michael Rosenberg,University of Delaware; 6 p.m.; UniversityMuseum; $10, $8/member, seniors,students (Museum).25 Roger Shimomura; lecture by theAsian-American artist; 2 p.m.; Institute ofContemporary Art Auditorium (Center forEast Asian Studies).

The New Era of Mexico-U.S.Migration; Douglas Massey, sociology;4 p.m.; Smith-Penniman Room, HoustonHall (Latin American Cultures Program).28 Re-engineering the Brain with GeneTargeting: Implications to Learning andMemory; Alcino Silva, Cold SpringHarbor Laboratory; noon; Room M100John Morgan Bldg. (Phamacology).29 The Politics of the Environment:1997 and Beyond; Peter Kostmayer, ZeroPopulation Growth, Washington, D.C.; 7p.m.; Faculty Club (Institute ForEnvironmental Studies).

Dyson and Young FellowshipLecture; Robert Henrickson and HollyPittman; 12:30 p.m.; Classroom 2,University Museum; free with admissiondonation: see Exhibits (Museum).

Where Have all the Flowers Gone?Changing Saharan Landscapes; RobertGiegengack, geology; 7-8 p.m.; $5, free/College of General Studies Special Prog.Students; registration: 898-6479 (CGS).30 Germ Line Cell Modification; RalphBrinster, physiology, animal biology;Bower Award Lecture; 1 p.m.; Room 200,College Hall (Veterinary Medicine).

Genetic and Molecular Analysis ofAging; Leonard Guarente, MIT; 4 p.m.;Grossman Auditorium, Wistar (Wistar).

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At the Philadelphia Antiques Show:Mercer Museum’s CentennialThis year, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s antiques show, held12-16, which will benefit a new Maxillofacial Reconstruction Center at the PenMedical Center, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Mercer Museum in BuCounty with a special loan exhibit featuring 18th and early-19th century Amerifrom the museum’s collection. The collection of archaeologist, anthropologist aceramist Henry Chapman Mercer includes tools and products of pre-industrial men documents the lives of early American settlers prior to the Industrial Revo

The Philadelphia Antiques Show is heldthe 103rd Engineers Armory at 33rd anMarket Streets, April 12 (11:30 a.m.-8 p.mApril 13 (11:30 a.m.-6 p.m.), April 14 an15 (11:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m.), and April 16(11:30 a.m.-4 p.m.). Tickets: $12/at thedoor, $10/in advance (by April 5), $5/PennCard holders; group rates availabFor information about tickets, catalogueand the preview reception, call 387-350At left: From Mercer’s original Toolsof the Nationmaker exhibit, Earthen-ware Dish of molded redware withsgraffito decoration by Andrew Head-man (c. 1750-1830), of Rockhill Township, Bucks County, 1808.